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Datapatch fails with The pluggable databases that need to be patched must be in upgrade mode

With recent PSU Patch (Jan18) , while runnin datapatch the following issue occurred.

Error: prereq checks failed!
patch 22139226: The pluggable databases that need to be patched must be in upgrade mode
Prereq check failed, exiting without installing any patches.

There is an option called “skip_upgrade_check” for datapatch.

$ ./datapatch -verbose -skip_upgrade_check
SQL Patching tool version 12.1.0.2.0 Production on Fri Jan 30 20:33:18 2018
Copyright (c) 2012, 2016, Oracle. All rights reserved.

Log file for this invocation: /u01/app/oracle/cfgtoollogs/sqlpatch/sqlpatch_13442_2018_01_30_20_33_18/sqlpatch_invocation.log

Connecting to database...OK
Note: Datapatch will only apply or rollback SQL fixes for PDBs
that are in an open state, no patches will be applied to closed PDBs.
Please refer to Note: Datapatch: Database 12c Post Patch SQL Automation
(Doc ID 1585822.1)
Bootstrapping registry and package to current versions...done
Determining current state...done

Current state of SQL patches:
Patch 22139226 (Database PSU 12.1.0.2.160119, Oracle JavaVM Component (Jan2016)):
Installed in RACTESTPDB only
Patch 27001733 (Database PSU 12.1.0.2.180116, Oracle JavaVM Component (JAN2018)):
Installed in the binary registry and CDB$ROOT PDB$SEED
Bundle series PSU:
ID 180116 in the binary registry and ID 180116 in PDB CDB$ROOT, ID 180116 in PDB PDB$SEED, ID 160419 in PDB RACTESTPDB

Adding patches to installation queue and performing prereq checks...
Installation queue:
For the following PDBs: CDB$ROOT PDB$SEED
Nothing to roll back
Nothing to apply
For the following PDBs: RACTESTPDB
The following patches will be rolled back:
22139226 (Database PSU 12.1.0.2.160119, Oracle JavaVM Component (Jan2016))
The following patches will be applied:
27001733 (Database PSU 12.1.0.2.180116, Oracle JavaVM Component (JAN2018))
26925311 (DATABASE PATCH SET UPDATE 12.1.0.2.180116)

Installing patches...
Patch installation complete. Total patches installed: 3

-Thanks

Suresh

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