Satellite upgrade fails with error "Could not upgrade database"

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Issue

  • upgrading satellite server to 5.4
  • install.pl --upgrade fails with the message 'Could not upgrade database'
  • log  file /var/log/rhn/upgrade_db.log shows that the script failed with the  oracle error ORA-04031: unable to allocate 3896 bytes of shared memory

Environment

  • Red Hat Network Satellite with embedded Oracle database

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