12c Patching Resume with Nonrolling Option While Analyze - JSON Magic

I was engaged in an interesting Oracle 12c patching today.  Patch applicability was checked by using:

"$GRID_HOME/OPatch/opatchauto apply /u01/app/oracle/software/24436306 -analyze"

and it failed because its a non-rolling patch:





"OPATCHAUTO-72085: Cannot execute in rolling mode, as execution mode is set to non-rolling for patch ID 24315824.
OPATCHAUTO-72085: Execute in non-rolling mode by adding option '-nonrolling' during execution. e.g. /OPatch/opatchauto apply -nonrolling
After fixing the cause of failure Run opatchauto resume with session id "F7ET "]"

So now I wanted to analyze the patch with non-rolling option.


$GRID_HOME/OPatch/opatchauto apply /u01/app/oracle/software/24436306 -analyze -nonrolling

OPatchauto session is initiated at Mon May 15 01:32:43 2017
Exception in thread "main" java.lang.NoClassDefFoundError: oracle/ops/mgmt/cluster/NoSuchExecutableException
        at com.oracle.glcm.patch.auto.db.util.SystemInfoGenerator.loadOptions(SystemInfoGenerator.java:322)
        at com.oracle.glcm.patch.auto.db.util.SystemInfoGenerator.validateOptions(SystemInfoGenerator.java:280)
        at com.oracle.glcm.patch.auto.db.util.SystemInfoGenerator.main(SystemInfoGenerator.java:134)
Caused by: java.lang.ClassNotFoundException: oracle.ops.mgmt.cluster.NoSuchExecutableException
        at java.net.URLClassLoader.findClass(URLClassLoader.java:381)
        at java.lang.ClassLoader.loadClass(ClassLoader.java:424)
        at sun.misc.Launcher$AppClassLoader.loadClass(Launcher.java:331)
        at java.lang.ClassLoader.loadClass(ClassLoader.java:357)
        ... 3 more

OPatchauto session completed at Mon May 15 01:32:44 2017
Time taken to complete the session 0 minute, 1 second

opatchauto bootstrapping failed with error code 1.
"


Solution:

In 12c, we have the patching sessions with their configuration in JSON files.

So go to directory $grid_home/OPatch/auto/dbsessioninfo/

and find the JSON file with session id F7ET, which was given in above error.

Edit this file and change the flag of non-rolling to TRUE.

{
      "key" : "nonrolling",
      "value" : "false"
    },

Change above to :

{
      "key" : "nonrolling",
      "value" : "true"
    },

Save the file and run the opatchauto analyze again with resume session

$GRID_HOME/OPatch/opatchauto resume -session F7ET

and it works!!!

Happy Patching!!!