Issue

While creating a patch plan, if you choose to override the Oracle home preferred credentials, and set privileged credentials as normal Oracle home credentials inadvertently as shown in the graphic below, then you will see an error stating that log files cannot be created in the EMStagedPatches directory.

For example,

“Unable to create the file <RAC_HOME>/EMStagedPatches/PA_APPLY_PATCH_09_02_2011_14_27_13.log"

You might also see the following error:

ERROR: SharedDeviceException.
ACTION: Please check whether the configuration is supported or not.

Figure A-2 Inadvertently Selecting Privileged Credentials as Normal Credentials