What CPU Jan 2008 Patch will not tell you

What CPU Jan 2008 Patch will not tell you

File system space :- opatch suppose to check files system space as a part of Running prerequisite checks... and start apply patch when enough space is there.

Patching component oracle.rdbms, 11.1.0.6.0...

Updating archive file "/u01/app/oracle/product/11.1.0.6/lib/libserver11.a" with "lib/libserver11.a/kzsr.o"
Updating archive file "/u01/app/oracle/product/11.1.0.6/lib/libserver11.a" with "lib/libserver11.a/kzu.o"

The following actions have failed:

Archive not applied /home/oracle/patch/CPU2008/6646866/6650135/files/lib/libserver11.a/kzsr.o to /u01/app/oracle/product/11.1.0.6/lib/libserver11.a... ''

Archive not applied /home/oracle/patch/CPU2008/6646866/6650135/files/lib/libserver11.a/kzu.o to /u01/app/oracle/product/11.1.0.6/lib/libserver11.a... ''

Do you want to proceed? [yn]

Well I came out with N option. When we started opatch again , it gave error some thing like spacecheck fail.

So make sure you have enough space on file system.

In case of RAC database, CPU patch readme.txt will not tell you that one need to set cluster_database = false , before starting database in upgrade mode(“startup upgrade”). For compiling views and objects.

So make sure, in RAC environment you have set cluster_database = false before starting database in upgrade mode