It seems like you’re encountering an issue with the Oracle 19c deinstall utility on Oracle Linux (OL) or Red Hat Enterprise Linux (RHEL) 8, and you’re getting an error message “error:null” This error message is quite generic and doesn’t provide much information about the root cause. further we can read more detail from oracle official support portal for the error oracle 19c deinstall utility on ol/rhel 8 fails with “error:null“
Reason:
| $ ./deinstall Checking for required files and bootstrapping … Please wait … Location of logs <Central Inventory>/logs/ ############ ORACLE DECONFIG TOOL START ############ ######################### DECONFIG CHECK OPERATION START ######################### ## [START] Install check configuration ## Checking for existence of the Oracle home location <ORACLE_HOME Path> Oracle Home type selected for deinstall is: Oracle Single Instance Database Oracle Base selected for deinstall is: <ORACLE_BASE Path> Checking for existence of central inventory location <Central Inventory> ERROR: null |
Cause:
Known issue with OS Check performed by CVU on OL/RHEL 8
Solution:
Here we will provide two methods to solve the problem “oracle 19c deinstall utility on ol/rhel 8 fails with “error:null”
Temporary Solution:
Set the below environment variable for the Oracle Software User ID & retry the deinstall-
$ export CV_ASSUME_DISTID=OL7
$ ./deinstall
Permanent solution:
Install 19.7 OCW RU Patch for oracle database 19c running on Linux /OL 8.x version & then try the deinstall.
Conclusion:
In this blog post we seen how to resolve oracle deinstall fails “error:null” which not happened due to some particular reason while trying to deinstall utility oracle 19c RHEL/OL 8.x version. and we tried to resolve the issue on both ways temporary and permanently.
Read More:
Step by Step Guide: Oracle 19c Installation On Linux/Oracle Linux 8.x
