Re: ASM Install

Hi,

Couple ideas...

I've gotten stuck using ASMLib on some systems (don't worry about the details, no one cares, its just Linux ;-)). Its worth doing the raw configuration once in your environment just to make sure ASMLib is the problem. Can you run oracleasm listdisks okay?

Are you able to observe crs_stat info? If so, what does it say? Another clue is if crs is stuck there are good logs under /tmp with the problem. Might be as simple as running crs_start -all if dbca hangs. :-)

And, dbca needs some coaxing. If your disks have any ASMLib issues it may fail. By the way, what are your disks/storage, since that may make a difference too?

HTH Regards,

Mike Thomas

PS: ASMLib might be a POS in my opinion, until well known 'issues' are fixed. ;-)

On Fri, 18 Mar 2005 09:54:58 -0800, Stalin <stalinsk_at_gmail.com> wrote:
> Hi all,
>
> I've installed 10g (10.1.0.3) on RH linux ES (2.4.21-15.EL), for some
> reason i couldn't get ASM working.
>
> I chose the ASMlib path as opposed to creating raw fs. Installed
> following libraries from technet.oracle.com and it was sucessful.
>
> oracleasm-2.4.21-EL-1.0.3-1.i686.rpm
> oracleasmlib-1.0.0-1.i386.rpm
> oracleasm-support-1.0.3-1.i386.rpm
>
> I got the disks marked for ASM to use via oracleasm createdisk.
>
> With ocssd and listener running, when i started dbca to create custom
> database, i couldn't get pass 'create asm instance' screen . As soon
> as i give in sys password for ASM instance, a pop up window appears
> advising dbca would create and start ASM instance. Accepting that, a
> window appears with ASM instance being created.... That's it. i
> couldn't get pass this stage. No errors in alert logs either.
>
> After a while, i see asm_rbal_+ASM process taking almost 80% of cpu.
>
> Did anyone see this and what you did to resolve this issue.
>
> Greatly appreciated.
>
> Stalin
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