A bit more than two months ago I did hear from several people having issues with our Hands-On Lab environment. And it became clear that only those who use Oracle Virtual Box 5 see such errors.
Then I read Danny Bryant‘s blog post (thanks to Deiby Gomez for pointing me to it) about similar issues and a potential solution yesterday:
And interestingly one of my colleagues, our PL/SQL product manager Bryn Llewellyn started an email thread and a test internally yesterday as well.
I’ve ran two Hands-On-Workshops with customers and partners in Italy last week in Milano where we used our well known and thousands-of-times proven Hand-On-Lab environment:
But this time some people failed while running the lab with random corruptions either shutting down the entire VM while running – or displaying file corruptions in the spfile – or other issues.
The common thing in all cases: People had VBox 5.0.10 downloaded and installed right before the workshop.
Of course they’ve did it – as I’m tempted too since …
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Yesterday and the day before I’ve exchanged several emails with Ana who downloaded our Hands-On-Lab from here:
after OOW15, encountering a SEGMENTATION FAULT when trying to start the database upgrade with catctl.pl:
$ $ORACLE_HOME/perl/bin/perl catctl.pl catupgrd.sqlSegmentation fault
Very strange thing …
The database is in upgrade mode (checked this in the alert.log) and there are no strange things mentioned anywhere. Plus hundreds of people have run and completed our lab so far.
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