Symptoms
Downloaded 10.2.0.3 from metalink. Oracle from OTN.
Started apply apply patch and DBCA fails with
ERROR IN WRITING TO FILE LIBJMISC.SL[INVALID BLOCK TPYE] at 11% while copying the datafiles.
Checked with metalink, this could be due to file corrupted while download.
To verify this, the download page for the patch on Metalink has a button "View Digest" which shows the checksums
of the zip file.
Patch: p5337014_10203_HP64.zip
1424057924 bytes
MD5 : AC57E417EA46F6A281B54ACC338FD86B
To check the checksum of the download with an
MD-5 checker.
Public Domain checkers are available like on
http://www.fourmilab.ch/md5/
In my case , the checksum are shown below.
F2310739DACE8F9EB7C6067A8A7A1434 (wrong md5 chksum)
AC57E417EA46F6A281B54ACC338FD86B (correct md5 chksum)
From here , I learned taht for big file, verify the Digest is really important.
