1. Installation and Configuration Troubleshooting Guide
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  3. Patch Conflicts

Patch Conflicts

Apply 11.2.12 fails with patch conflict for Infra Patch

Issue: During 11.2.12 Release Update, If RUE 34920975 is applied on the environment, Infra patch will conflict with RUE 34920975. You will see a warning in the summary and detail log: 

Summary log 
023/02/01 17:31:29 WARN Failed to apply Infra OPatch. Check Opatch log for more details

Detail log
OPatch failed during prerequisite checks: ApplySession exits on request
System is intact, OPatch will not restore the system
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The following warnings have occurred during OPatch execution:
1) OUI-67619:Interim patch 34747247 conflict with patch(es) [34920975] in
the Oracle Home

Solution:Rollback one off infra patch no 34920975 and then Apply 11.2.12 Release update.

Apply 11.2.12 fails with patch conflict for FDMEE Patch

Issue: During 11.2.12 Release Update, If RUE 34812016 is applied on the environment, FDMEE patch will conflict with RUE 34812016. You will see a warning in the summary and detail log: 

Summary log 2023/02/01 17:32:52 WARN Failed to apply FDMEE OPatch. Check Opatch log for
more details

Detail log
Patch failed during prerequisite checks: ApplySession exits on request
System is intact, OPatch will not restore the system
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The following warnings have occurred during OPatch execution:
1) OUI-67619:Interim patch 34765144 conflict with patch(es) [34812016] in
the Oracle Home

Solution: Rollback one off FDMEE patch no 34812016 and then Apply 11.2.12 Release update.

Apply JAN 2023 CPU patch fails with patch conflict

Issue: When applying JAN 2023 CPU on EPM 11.2.8, it might fail with patch conflict on ADF Bundle Patch 12.2.1.4.210903 33313802

Error:

...
Following patches have conflicts: [   33313802   34879707 ]
...
Log file location:
D:\Oracle\Middleware\cfgtoollogs\opatch\opatch2023-02-03_16-28-37PM_1.log
OPatch failed with error code = 73

Solution: ADF BUNDLE PATCH 12.2.1.4.230103 needs to applied before applying WLS STACK PATCH BUNDLE 12.2.1.4.230112.

Conflicts between 11.2.16+ patches and older EPM patches.

Issue: Using the ApplyUpdate.ps1 -verify command reveals conflicts between 11.2.16+ patches and older EPM patches.

Solution:

  1. Stop all the EPM Services.
  2. Back up comps.xml file located under:
    MIDDLEWARE_HOME\EPMSystem11R1\inventory\ContentsXML
  3. Remove the oneoffs folder located under:
    MIDDLEWARE_HOME\inventory\oneoffs
    For example: <Local Drive>:\Oracle\Middleware\EPMSystem11R1\inventory\oneoffs
    1. Edit comps.xml file located under:
      MIDDLEWARE_HOME\inventory\ContentsXML\comps.xml
      For example: <Local Drive>:\Oracle\Middleware\EPMSystem11R1\inventory\ContentsXML\comps.xml
    2. Locate <ONEOFF_LIST> and delete all rows up to </ONEOFF_LIST>
      <ONEOFF_LIST>
</ONEOFF_LIST>
  5. Use the roll back command to manually roll back the OHS patch 34840232. Ensure that you run the following OHS command only from the OHS home location:
    • Windows - <Local Drive>: /Oracle/Middleware/ohs/OPatch> opatch.bat rollback -id 34840232 -oh C:/Oracle/Middleware/ohs
    • Linux - /Oracle/Middleware/ohs/OPatch> ./opatch rollback -id 34840232 -oh /Oracle/Middleware/ohs