War Stories

Tale of a platform migration Solaris 10 SPARC 10.2.0.5 to Linux 11.2.0.2.6

This is as much a note to myself how to do this in the future as…
An interesting problem with ext4 on Oracle Linux 5.5

I have run into an interesting problem with my Red Hat 5.5 installation. Naively I assumed…
Troubleshooting Oracle agent 12.1.0.1.0

As you may have read on this blog I recently moved from Oracle Enterprise Manager 11.1…
Troubleshooting Grid Infrastructure startup

This has been an interesting story today when one of my blades decided to reboot after…
Troubleshooting ora.net1.network on an 8 node cluster

It seems I am doing a lot of fixing broken stuff recently. So this time I…
Oracle Support-final update to SR

Just had a really pleasent exchange with Oracle support. I was after a way to purge…
UKOUG RAC&HA SIG September 2010

Just a quick one to announce that I’ll present at said event. Here’s the short synopsis…
Patching CRS to 10.2.0.5

A small blog post about patching CRS 10.2.0.1 to 10.2.0.5 instead of applying the latest PSU…
tnsping segmentation fault with 10.2 client

The tale of a very interesting problem with a segmentation fault on RHEL 5.3 64bit when…
ORA-604 when starting the database

Interesting scenario this morning with a development database. There is no specific monitoring in place for…