Be sure you have the right opatch (was:Re: Copying database instance from one server to another)

I wrote:

>But maybe I'm antsy about the subject, since I just ran into problems
>applying the jan 2006 security patch for 9ir2

Then this morning I got this from Oracle Global Support:

>A change of behavior in OPatch versions 1.0.0.0.54 and 10.2.0.1.1 was causing file
>permissions under Oracle_Home to be changed incorrectly when applying an interim patch.
>As a result, a non-DBA user would not be able to connect to any database from the patched
>server. This issue affected Unix and Linux platforms only. The behavior is corrected in
>OPatch versions 1.0.0.0.55 and 10.2.0.1.2 that are available on MetaLink via Patches
>2617419 and 4898608 respectively.

Which of course were updated yesterday.

But at least now I now both hp and Oracle have messed up this stuff. I won't even speculate about linux.

jg

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