Re: CRS install failing

Bill,
what are the access rights on the devices (should be w/r by oracle user), raw and the underlying block devices? sometimes, when restarting rawdevices, it makes the /dev/raw/raw* w/r by root only. another thing, your sysadmin did the formatting thing before root.sh, no? rgds

On 4/4/07, William Wagman <wjwagman_at_ucdavis.edu> wrote:
>
> Mladen,
>
> From the system adminstrator...
>
> I stopped the rawdevices service on both nodes, formatted
> /dev/emcpowera1 (which is the multipathed device underlying
> /dev/raw/raw1), and was able to mount it and write to it from both
> nodes. Seems like it works to me. I've unmounted that file system and
> restarted the rawdevices service. You can try your install again;
> perhaps there was some data lingering there from a previous installation
> which Oracle didn't like this time around.
>
> So there was something incorrect in the way the devices were configured.
> As to what, I don't know. Thank you for the catch.
>
>
> Bill Wagman
> Univ. of California at Davis
> IET Campus Data Center
> wjwagman_at_ucdavis.edu
> (530) 754-6208
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Mladen Gogala [mailto:mgogala_at_vmsinfo.com]
> Sent: Tuesday, April 03, 2007 11:16 AM
> To: William Wagman
> Cc: Dyno Fu; Niall Litchfield; oracle-l_at_freelists.org
> Subject: Re: CRS install failing
>
> William Wagman wrote:
> > Hi,
> >
> > In the first few lines I see the following...
> >
> > 2007-03-29 15:31:06.045: [ OCRRAW][3076419712]propriogid:1: INVALID
> > FORMAT
> > 2007-03-29 15:31:06.046: [ OCRRAW][3076419712]ibctx:1:ERROR: INVALID
> > FORMAT
> > 2007-03-29 15:31:06.046: [ OCRRAW][3076419712]proprinit:problem
> reading
> > the bootblock or superbloc 22
> >
> William, you might have a problem with your disk drives. These error
> messages tell me that oracle cannot read superblock,
> usually a bad sign. Did you try doing a simple "ls" on your OCFS?
>
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