Re: Oracle RAC 10g R2 - Instance problem

From: Michael Austin <maustin_at_firstdbasource.com>
Date: Fri, 12 Sep 2008 17:40:13 -0500
Message-ID: <ybCyk.183$ZP4.100@nlpi067.nbdc.sbc.com>


Goni wrote:
> Hello,
> I have Oracle RAC 10g R2 running over Solaris 10 on an E2900 with EMC
> shared storage. Running Veritas Cluster and Volume Manager version 5.
> One oracle instance is running fine on node1, while when we try to
> start second instance on node2, both of the instances hangs.
>
> Any clues, info .. anything? I'll post more information if required.
>
> Update: I tried to start init.crsd again after many unsuccessful
> attempts and this time it started. and off course it also started all
> the instances and listeners. Any clues why and when this service goes
> down and why it was not coming back up?
>
> I am not a DBA, I am a sys admin. But trying to resolve with that I
> got as a so called DBA :)
>
> Muhammad

export ORA_CRS_HOME=<top level binaries for CRS> export PATH=$ORA_CRS_HOME/bin:$PATH

what is the full version of Oracle CRS/ASM/RDBMS? (10.2.0.?) give us the output of...
as root on both nodes:
crs_stat -t

Make sure you copied the Veritas Cluster library (see the Veritas instructions.

While it is a RAC cluster, it is a crippled one. And I do agree with Daniel - dump Veritas ASAP as you are effectively having 2 cluster products try to keep your "cluster" intact. Received on Fri Sep 12 2008 - 17:40:13 CDT

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