Intelligent Agent starting problem under Linux (FC3)- Applying Patch to fix

Jul 22, 2006 2:22PM
Problem: Trying to start intelligent agent, failed as shown below:
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[oracle@YS02 bin]$ agentctl start agent
DBSNMP for Linux: Version 9.2.0.4.0 - Production on 22-JUL-2006 14:20:19
Copyright (c) 2003 Oracle Corporation. All rights reserved.
Starting Oracle Intelligent Agent.../opt/app/oracle/product/9.2.0.4/bin/dbsnmpwd : line 156: 3891 Segmentation fault nohup $ORACLE_HOME/bin/dbsnmp $* >>$DB SNMP_WDLOGFILE 2>&1
/opt/app/oracle/product/9.2.0.4/bin/dbsnmpwd: line 156: 3904 Segmentation fault nohup $ORACLE_HOME/bin/dbsnmp $* >>$DBSNMP_WDLOGFILE 2>&1
/opt/app/oracle/product/9.2.0.4/bin/dbsnmpwd: line 156: 3916 Segmentation fault nohup $ORACLE_HOME/bin/dbsnmp $* >>$DBSNMP_WDLOGFILE 2>&1
/opt/app/oracle/product/9.2.0.4/bin/dbsnmpwd: line 156: 3928 Segmentation fault nohup $ORACLE_HOME/bin/dbsnmp $* >>$DBSNMP_WDLOGFILE 2>&1
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Solution: Applying Patch

Jul 23, 2006 11:00 AM -- fix the intelligent agent starting problem
(1) Install OPatch user ORACLE_HOME
(2) Applying patch p3238244
% unzip
% cd 3238244
% $ORACLE_HOME/OPatch/opatch apply
(3) To find which makefile handles the linking of dbsnmp:

% find $ORACLE_HOME -name "*.mk" xargs grep -l dbsnmp
/opt/app/oracle/product/9.2.0.4/network/lib/ins_oemagent.mk
/opt/app/oracle/product/9.2.0.4/network/lib/env_oemagent.mk
(4) relink
$ su - oracle
$ cd $ORACLE_HOME/network/lib
$ make -f ins_oemagent.mk install

(5) start the agent successfully
[oracle@YS02 lib]$ agentctl start agent
DBSNMP for Linux: Version 9.2.0.4.0 - Production on 23-JUL-2006 11:13:24
Copyright (c) 2003 Oracle Corporation. All rights reserved.
Starting Oracle Intelligent Agent....
Agent started