ORA-15137: The ASM cluster is in rolling patch state

SYMPTOM

While adding a new disk into an existing diskgroup, below errors occurred:

ORA-15032: not all alterations performed
ORA-15137: The ASM cluster is in rolling patch state.

INVESTIGATION

1) On both nodes, it shows the cluster in “In Rolling Patch”, and the patch levels are all the same.

SQL> SELECT SYS_CONTEXT('SYS_CLUSTER_PROPERTIES', 'CLUSTER_STATE') 
     FROM DUAL;

SYS_CONTEXT('SYS_CLUSTER_PROPERTIES','CLUSTER_STATE')
--------------------------------------------------------------------
In Rolling Patch

SQL> SELECT SYS_CONTEXT('SYS_CLUSTER_PROPERTIES', 'CURRENT_PATCHLVL') 
     FROM DUAL;

SYS_CONTEXT('SYS_CLUSTER_PROPERTIES','CURRENT_PATCHLVL')
--------------------------------------------------------------------
3628626982

$ asmcmd
ASMCMD> showclusterstate
In Rolling Patch

ASMCMD> showpatches
---------------
List of Patches
===============
26609817
26609966
26839277
27105253
27128906
27144050
27335416
27458609
27464465
27674384

ASMCMD> showversion
ASM version         : 12.2.0.1.0

2) “crsctl query crs softwarepatch” shows the same results on both nodes:

$ crsctl query crs softwarepatch
Oracle Clusterware patch level on node racnode1 is [3628626982].

$ crsctl query crs softwarepatch
Oracle Clusterware patch level on node racnode2 is [3628626982].

3) “crsctl query crs releasepatch” shows the same results on both nodes:

— racnode1:

$crsctl query crs releasepatch
Oracle Clusterware release patch level is [3628626982] and the complete 
list of patches [26609817 26609966 26839277 27105253 27128906 27144050 
27335416 27458609 27464465 27674384 ] have been applied on the local node.

— racnode2:

$crsctl query crs releasepatch
Oracle Clusterware release patch level is [3628626982] and the complete 
list of patches [26609817 26609966 26839277 27105253 27128906 27144050 
27335416 27458609 27464465 27674384 ] have been applied on the local node.

4) kfod command shows the same results on both nodes:

— racnode1:

$ $ORACLE_HOME/bin/kfod op=patchlvl
-------------------
Current Patch level
===================
3628626982

$ $ORACLE_HOME/bin/kfod op=patches
---------------
List of Patches
===============
26609817
26609966
26839277
27105253
27128906
27144050
27335416
27458609
27464465
27674384

— racnode2:

$ $ORACLE_HOME/bin/kfod op=patchlvl
-------------------
Current Patch level
===================
3628626982

$ $ORACLE_HOME/bin/kfod op=patches
---------------
List of Patches
===============
26609817
26609966
26839277
27105253
27128906
27144050
27335416
27458609
27464465
27674384

5) lsinventory shows the same results on both nodes:

$ $ORACLE_HOME/OPatch/opatch lsinventory | grep -i desc
ARU platform description:: Linux x86-64
Patch description: "Database Apr 2018 Release Update : 12.2.0.1.180417 (27674384)"
Patch description: "OCW APR 2018 RELEASE UPDATE 12.2.0.1.0(180129) (27464465)"
Patch description: "ACFS APR 2018 RELEASE UPDATE 12.2.0.1.0(180129) (27458609)"
Patch description: "Tomcat Release Update 12.2.0.1.0(ID:171023.0830) (27144050)"
Patch description: "DBWLM RELEASE UPDATE 12.2.0.1.0(ID:170913) (26839277)"

SOLUTIONS

$crsctl stop rollingpatch
CRS-1161: The cluster was successfully patched to patch level [3628626982].

recheck with above commands, the cluster status is changed from “In Rolling Patch” to “Normal” now.

SQL> SELECT SYS_CONTEXT('SYS_CLUSTER_PROPERTIES', 'CLUSTER_STATE') 
     FROM DUAL;

SYS_CONTEXT('SYS_CLUSTER_PROPERTIES','CLUSTER_STATE')
--------------------------------------------------------------------------------
Normal

Generally speaking, For “ORA-15137: The ASM cluster is in rolling patch state” issue, the below steps can be followed one after another, until the issue is resolved:

a) stop rolling patch status one node by another:

SQL>Alter system stop rolling patch;

b) stop rolling patch for whole cluster:

$crsctl stop rollingpatch

c) In case of  postpatch not complete successfully for some reason, which can also cause this issue:

— As super root user :

 $GRID_HOME/crs/install/rootcrs.sh -prepatch 
 $GRID_HOME/crs/install/rootcrs.sh -postpatch

d) For some reason, OCR is not updated with right patchlevel:

$GRID_HOME/crs/install/rootcrs.sh -prepatch 
$GI_HOME/bin/clscfg -patch
$GRID_HOME/crs/install/rootcrs.sh -postpatch

e) For some reason,  patches are available from “opatch lsinventory”, but they are missing from kfod output:

-- as super user
$GRID_HOME/crs/install/rootcrs.sh -prepatch 

-- as grid owner,
$GRID_HOME/bin/patchgen commit -pi 12345678 
$GRID_HOME/bin/patchgen commit -pi 23456789 

-- as super user
$GRID_HOME/crs/install/rootcrs.sh -postpatch