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I’ve done a database clone using rman hundreds of times and it works pretty much as advertised. However we have some read only tablespaces and by default rman restore database does not restore read only. You can use the check readonly option on the restore command to restore read only datafiles as well.

This time I forgot to do this and as I did not need these files I thought I would just get rid of them:

SQL> drop tablespace example;
*
ERROR at line 1:
ORA-19528: redo logs being cleared may need access to files

The response from Oracle has so far been dismal: “the bug 6368134 on 10.2.0.3, which describe exactly this issue.” There is no fix and no workaround as yet.

I’ve just updated a new server using pca. This worked well apart from patch 121430-16 which is a publicly available live upgrade . It failed to install:

This patch requires the installation of the latest version of the SUNWlucfg package.
The SUNWlucfg package can be found on the Solaris 10 Update 4 (08/2007) installation media or newer Solaris 10 updates.

This patch requires a new package to be installed (SUNWlucfg) which is only available on the Solaris 10 update 4 release - which isn’t available yet. This thread shows that that isn’t until 27th August - 11 days away. The patch has also been available since 3rd August.

Come on Sun - get your act together and get back to a working and tested patch release system. Don’t release patches until we can use them.