Thursday, November 20, 2014

OUI-10020: A write lock cannot be obtained

Once I faced issue with OUI that, it was failing with following message,

OUI-10020:The target area /etc/oraInventory is being used by another session. A write lock cannot be obtained.

Cause:


Some process that holds
 lock on the /etc/oraInventory file. Until that software release lock OUI continues to display message OUI-10020.

Solution:


1.Go to the oraInventory directory.
$cd /etc/oraInventory

2. See the contents of it.

$ls /etc/oraInventory

You will see the locks directory here.

3.Go to the lock directory and delete the read lock under the directory.


$cd locks
$ rm 
/etc/oraInventory/locks/reader0.lock

4.Now run Oracle Universal Installer again. It should work.

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