AFD and OJVM Errors During Oracle 19c Restart and DB Install on OEL 9

Recently, I was preparing myself to set up a fresh Oracle Restart environment to migrate few pluggable databases. My new X86_64bit OEL host had,

Oracle Unbreakable Linux 9.6
UEK 6.12.0-103.40.4.1. el9uek.x86_64 (UEK 8)
GI and DB 19.3 base Binaries
Latest opatch (Patch 6880880)
Latest GI Release Update (RU) 19.28.0.0 (Patch 37957391)
Latest OJVM Release Update (RU) 19.28.0.0.250715 (37847857)
oracle@TESTDEVDB01 ~]$ id: uid=54321(oracle) gid=54321(oinstall) groups=54321(oinstall),54322(dba),54323(oper),54324(backupdba),54325(dgdba)34(asmoper),54335(asmadmin)
grid@TESTDEVDB01 ~]$ id :uid=54331(grid) gid=54321(oinstall) groups=54321(oinstall),54322(dba),54330(racdba),54333(asmdba),54334(asmoper),54335(asmadmin)

Preparing for setup

Grid binaries was first extracted to GI home

unzip -q /u01/software/LINUX.X64_193000_grid_home.zip

Since base version 19.3 is not installable directly on OEL 9 (required 19.6 or above), GidsSetup was run with 19.28 RU applied first

./gridSetup.sh -applyRU /u01/software/37957391

You may experience “[INS-08101] Unexpected error while executing the action at state: ‘supportedOSCheck is occurred “otherwise.

Patching was successful. However, when (ASM)FD was selected during GridSetup (GUI), it complained ASMFD was not supported.

UEK downgrading

As per Oracle support note : ACFS and AFD Support On OS Platforms (Certification Matrix). (Doc ID 1369107.1) , UEK 8 was not part of the current support matrix and hence downgraded to kernel-uek-5.15.0-312.187.5.2 (latest EUK 7, as of now) Upon the change above, the installation was completed successfully on GI.

Note : Kernel.panic = 1 parameter had to be manually set during the setup process

OJVM Error during DB patching

Database Binary installation commenced along with 19.28 RU

unzip -q /u01/software/p6880880_190000_Linux-x86-64.zip

./runInstaller -applyRU /u01/software/37957391

Database RU and configurations were successful. With the application requiring OJVM, post DB install, I started applying the OJVM patch. (note that the opatch prereq CheckConflictAgainstOHWithDetail -ph ./ returned no errors)

opatch apply

During execution below error stack was returned

BEGIN failed–compilation aborted at /u01/app/oracle/product/19.0.0/dbhome1/javavm/install/update_javavm_binaries.pl line 64. make: *** [ins_rdbms.mk:573: javavm_refresh] Error 2 ‘The following make actions have failed : Re-link fails on target “javavm_refresh”. Do you want to proceed? [y|n] N Oracle started to rollback the patch by restoring the old files. However, it too failed

Error Log info

[Sep 22, 2025 11:36:08 AM] [INFO] Finish invoking ‘make’ at Mon Sep 22 11:36:08 IST 2025

[Sep 22, 2025 11:36:08 AM] [WARNING]OUI-67200:Make failed to invoke “/usr/bin/make -f ins_rdbms.mk javavm_refresh ORACLE_HOME=/u01/app/oracle/product/19.0.0/dbhome1 O

PATCH_SESSION=apply”….‘Can’t locate File/Copy.pm in @INC (you may need to install the File::Copy module) (@INC contains: /usr/local/lib64/perl5/5.32 /usr/local/shar

e/perl5/5.32 /usr/lib64/perl5/vendor_perl /usr/share/perl5/vendor_perl /usr/lib64/perl5 /usr/share/perl5) at /u01/app/oracle/product/19.0.0/dbhome1/javavm/install/upd

ate_javavm_binaries.pl line 64.

BEGIN failed–compilation aborted at /u01/app/oracle/product/19.0.0/dbhome1/javavm/install/update_javavm_binaries.pl line 64.

make: *** [ins_rdbms.mk:573: javavm_refresh] Error 2

‘

[Sep 22, 2025 11:36:08 AM] [INFO] Stack Description: java.lang.RuntimeException: Can’t locate File/Copy.pm in @INC (you may need to install the File::Copy module) (

@INC contains: /usr/local/lib64/perl5/5.32 /usr/local/share/perl5/5.32 /usr/lib64/perl5/vendor_perl /usr/share/perl5/vendor_perl /usr/lib64/perl5 /usr/share/perl5) at

/u01/app/oracle/product/19.0.0/dbhome1/javavm/install/update_javavm_binaries.pl line 64.

BEGIN failed–compilation aborted at /u01/app/oracle/product/19.0.0/dbhome1/javavm/install/update_javavm_binaries.pl line 64.

make: *** [ins_rdbms.mk:573: javavm_refresh] Error 2

at oracle.opatch.MakeAction.apply(MakeAction.java:543)

at oracle.opatch.OPatchSession.runMake(OPatchSession.java:757)

at oracle.opatch.OPatchSession.runMake(OPatchSession.java:699)

at oracle.opatch.MergedPatchObject.invokeConsolidatedMake(MergedPatchObject.java:1903)

at oracle.opatch.opatchutil.NApply.legacy_process(NApply.java:1752)

at oracle.opatch.opatchutil.NApply.legacy_process(NApply.java:374)

at oracle.opatch.opatchutil.NApply.process(NApply.java:354)

at oracle.opatch.opatchutil.OUSession.napply(OUSession.java:1145)

at sun.reflect.NativeMethodAccessorImpl.invoke0(Native Method)

at sun.reflect.NativeMethodAccessorImpl.invoke(NativeMethodAccessorImpl.java:62)

at sun.reflect.DelegatingMethodAccessorImpl.invoke(DelegatingMethodAccessorImpl.java:43)

at java.lang.reflect.Method.invoke(Method.java:498)

at oracle.opatch.UtilSession.process(UtilSession.java:355)

at oracle.opatch.OPatchSession.process(OPatchSession.java:2640)

at oracle.opatch.OPatch.process(OPatch.java:888)

at oracle.opatch.OPatch.main(OPatch.java:945)

[Sep 22, 2025 11:36:08 AM] [INFO] OUI-67050:Running make for target jox_on

[Sep 22, 2025 11:36:08 AM] [INFO] Start invoking ‘make’ at Mon Sep 22 11:36:08 IST 2025Mon Sep 22 11:36:08 IST 2025

[Sep 22, 2025 11:36:08 AM] [INFO] Running make command: /usr/bin/make -f ins_rdbms.mk jox_on ORACLE_HOME=/u01/app/oracle/product/19.0.0/dbhome1 OPATCH_SESSION=apply

[Sep 22, 2025 11:36:08 AM] [INFO] Finish invoking ‘make’ at Mon Sep 22 11:36:08 IST 2025

[Sep 22, 2025 11:36:08 AM] [INFO] OUI-67050:Running make for target ioracle

Root cause and fix

Root cause of the issue was identified as

Not setting PERL5LIB Environmental variable.

Below actions were taken

Refer Oracle provided perl and setup the PATHs
- export PATH=$ORACLE_HOME/perl/bin:$PATH
- export PERL5LIB=$ORACLE_HOME/perl/lib