I recently deployed Oracle AI Database Private Agent Factory (OPAF) v26.4.0 on OCI as part of my internal demo and prototyping environment. The goal was straightforward: stand up a Knowledge Agent that could ingest documents and answer questions using OCI GenAI. What I got instead was a frustrating series of database deadlocks that took most of a day to fully resolve. Here is the full story — including every dead end — so you do not have to repeat it. The Setup OPAF runs as a Podman container on an OCI compute VM in the Frankfurt region. My initial database choice was an Autonomous Database 26ai Free tier instance, which seemed reasonable for a demo environment. OPAF version: 26.4.0.0.0 Container: oracle-applied-ai-label / Podman VM: agentfactoryvm3, OCI Frankfurt Database initial: AutonomousDB23ai — ADB 26ai, Free tier LLM: OCI GenAI, meta.llama-3.3-70b-instruct, eu-fran...
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