Patching does not work – Journey to the Cloud VI

What happened so far on my Journey to the Cloud?

DBaaS Oracle Cloud

Patching in the Cloud

I would like to patch my Oracle DBaaS Cloud today. It was so simple a few weeks ago. But I didn’t patch it yet up to the January 2016 PSU (12.1.0.2.160119PSU) – shame on me 🙁

Please don’t be scared by the weird mix of German and English – I filed a bug for this months ago … and maybe one magic sunny day I can switch the language back to pure English …

Anyhow, I choose my VM and it highlighted to me an available patch to apply, the January 2016 PSU:

Let’s do the PreCheck 

I chose PRECHECK first from the drop-down hamburger menu to the right and received the following message:

But where are the logs? There is no link, no hint, nothing.

Let’s check the README 

At this point I decided to check the README to find out whether I missed something important. So I clicked on README and received this meaningful message:

Potentially not a fault of the Cloud folks as I realized by myself that the MOS facility to link patches directly is broken since weeks. A manual interaction in MOS to locate the README is necessary – but it gave me no indication regarding the above failed precheck.

Force to apply the PSU 

Next step: FORCE to apply the patch (2nd option in the hamburger menu). But again the result is not positive showing me again a weird mix of Denglish (Deutsch and English).

Result?

Well, that is somewhat unexpected. I checked with some people who are way more familiar than I with our DBaaS Cloud after consulting our documentation and googling around – and learned that this functionality is broken since several weeks,

No further comment necessary.

–Mike

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