dbca hangs - Oracle 10gR2 RAC, Solaris 10, NetApp NFS

From: Yonah Russ <yonah.russ_at_gmail.com>
Date: Wed, 21 Nov 2007 12:29:53 -0800 (PST)
Message-ID: <7511caeb-219b-490e-9bf0-dc6b20098218@r60g2000hsc.googlegroups.com>

Hi,

We have RAC installed on 2 T2000 machines. Solaris 10, patched
IPMP for failover on all interfaces
NetApp NFS for datafile,voting disk, etc. Oracle installation, binaries, etc. are on local disks. All configurations were according to Oracle/NetApp docs. There were no issues during installation.

When we try to create the db using dbca, the process hangs during data dictionary creation.
There is only one error message "Warning: aiowait timed out x times" All the NFS partitions are mounted forcedirectio, and we have tried with aio disabled in oracle.
We have also tried without forcedirectio, with nointr instead of intr. If we create a db on the local disks there is no issue. There are no problems using the NFS shares in general.

Any ideas?
Thanks
Yonah Received on Wed Nov 21 2007 - 14:29:53 CST