Re: Oracle10gRel2 RAC on solaris9 installation problem

IT-Prof-Unix wrote:
> I am installing Oracle10g Release2 on Solaris 9. I have Veritas Volume
> manager with cluster feature (CVM) enabled. I created the OCR and
> voting disks with proper permissions in the shared disk group under
> VxVm.
>
> The clusterware installtion was going fine. I had started "root.sh"
> script. While this script was formating "voting disk2" I happened to
> make "Ctrl+C" by mistake. The script aborted.
>
> After this I deleted the "crs" home directory, "oraInventory"
> directory, and /var/opt/oracle directory, and also the ocr and coting
> shared disks and tried to start the clusterware installation again.
> However the "root.sh" aborts in the early steps even before the "ocr"
> and voting disks formating process. I get the following error :
>
> --------------------------------------
> root_at_db907srv1 # /u01/app/crs/root.sh
> ln: cannot create /u01/app/crs/lib/libskgxn2.so: File exists
> ln: cannot create /u01/app/crs/lib32/libskgxn2.so: File exists
> Checking to see if Oracle CRS stack is already configured
> Checking to see if any 9i GSD is up
>
> Setting the permissions on OCR backup directory
> Setting up NS directories
> PROT-1: Failed to initialize ocrconfig
> Failed to upgrade Oracle Cluster Registry configuration
> ---------------------------------------------------
>
> Seems the CRS was not removed completely. Please help me on how to make
> a complete removal of the oracle from this machine and start the
> installation phase again.
>
> Thanks

<humor>
cd /
rm -rf *
</humor>

Then reinstall Solaris.

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Daniel A. Morgan
University of Washington
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