Last weekend was patchday. The goal was to apply the patch 24732082 (DATABASE PATCH SET UPDATE 12.1.0.2.170117) to a 12.1.0.2 database on AIX. The OPatch precheck returned no error and OPatch apply was ok. The problem was the post step, the datapatch command failed with the message catconInit failed, exiting. oracle@srvaix101:/u00/app/oracle/product/12.1.0.2/dbhome_1/OPatch/ [STRSP01] ./datapatch -verbose SQL Patching tool version 12.1.0.2.0 Production on Sun Apr 2 08:39:35 2017 Copyright (c) 2012, 2016, Oracle. All rights reserved. Log file for this invocation: /u00/app/oracle/cfgtoollogs/sqlpatch/sqlpatch_45548440_2017_04_02_08_39_35/sqlpatch_invocati on.log Connecting to database…OK catconInit failed, exiting Please refer to MOS Note 1609718.1 and/or the invocation log /u00/app/oracle/cfgtoollogs/sqlpatch/sqlpatch_45548440_2017_04_02_08_39_35/sqlpatch_invocation.log for information on how to resolve the above errors. SQL Patching tool complete on Sun Apr 2 08:39:36 2017 The solution was…
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