Re: Sun/Veritas question

Hi Dave,

Thanks for responding. According to the docs, they suggested creating volumes with the names of the control files that will be occupying them, so there would not be any confusion regarding their contents.

It turns out that, although I created the volumes and set the permissions via chown and chgrp, I actually needed to bring up each volumes properties and change the permissions via the GUI. I also needed to "start" the volumes from within the GUI (vmsa). Sigh!

After that everything started to work!! At last!!

-Dirk

Dave Haas wrote:
>
> Hi Dirk.
>
> You are trying to create the controlfile AS the volumn name, not ON the
> volume (that's what it looks like anyway). The controlfiles are NOT
> supposed to exist at database creation time. They are created by the
> "create database ..." command, in the directories (and given the names) that
> are specified in your init<SID>.ora :)
>
> HTH,
>
> Dave Haas
>
> "Dirk Kiehne" <dirk_at_liberate.com> wrote in message
> news:3A6514C7.B7793228_at_liberate.com...
> > Hi to all,
> >
> > I'm trying to install OPS on two Sun systems and a D1000 array
> > I've pretty much got things setup. My problem is when I install
> > Oracle 8.1.7 and attempt to create the database.
> >
> > I've setup the Array (D1000) with Veritas VxVm and created several
> > 600Mb volumes. I then shared the oracledg (diskgroup) that they were
> > in, in the cluster so that they appear to both nodes.
> >
> > When I then, after installing 8.1.7, create the database with the
> > script from the output of dbassist, I get the following:
> >
> > SVRMGR> 2> 3> 4> 5> 6> 7> 8>
> > 9> 10>
> > 11> 12> CREATE DATABASE "liberate"
> > *
> > ORA-01501: CREATE DATABASE failed
> > ORA-00200: controlfile could not be created
> > ORA-00202: controlfile: '/dev/vx/rdsk/oracledg/op_control1.clt'
> > ORA-27041: unable to open file
> > SVR4 Error: 6: No such device or address
> > Additional information: 1
> > SVRMGR> Disconnected.
> > SVRMGR> SVRMGR> Server Manager complete.
> >
> > I have checked the permissions on the volumes and they are
> > all owned by "oracle" with group "oinstall". That file, op_control.clt
> > does exist in that directory and it is supposed to represent a
> > Veritas volume on the array.
> >
> > What am I doing wrong?? Any ideas at all??
> >
> > Thanks in advance for any leads.
> > -Dirk
Received on Wed Jan 17 2001 - 13:57:25 CST