Posts Tagged ‘RAC’
11gR2:Listener Startup Issues
In this blog post I will be discussing listener startup issues faced in 11gR2 RAC. I will be constantly updating this post based on my experiences or any comments on this blog post. Let’s get started.You will experience following errors while starting listener using [Read More]
11gR1 CRS start failing with ORA-29702
This post was actually a comment from Sasi which came on previous article 10.2 CRS startup issue . I am converting it to a post so that we can get some feedback on this issue from other users. I suspect this to be caused by RHEL5 bug (fixed in RHEL5u6) related to NIC going [Read More]
Changing CRS/Database timezone in 11.2.0.2 post install
I had installed a 11.2.0.2 RAC setup few days back with incorrect timezone. It had to be PDT but I installed with UTC. Starting/stopping clusteware with correct timezone didn’t solve the issue. In 11.2.0.2 Oracle stores timezone information in file [Read More]
Oracle Database Appliance Introduced
Oracle has introduced it new product: ODA (Oracle Database Appliance) I was not able to join Oracle President Mark Hurd’s webcast where he supposed to announce a new Oracle product, now viewing this webcast HERE Kerry Osborne has shared information about this product, [Read More]
CRS-4640 Error on Starting 11gR2 clusterware
I was working on a issue where in Clusterware was not coming up as private interface was down. Following errors were recorded in ocssd.log which informed that issue was with private interface 2011-08-31 15:03:38.051: clssnmvDHBValidateNCopy: node 2, testrac2, has a disk HB, [Read More]
In-Place Upgrade 11gR2 RAC : 11.2.0.1 To 11.2.0.2
Sharing a post from my friend “Carthik” on 11gR2 RAC in-place upgrade. Overview ======== Starting oracle 11gR2 the Oracle database and Clusterware upgrades are done via the “Out of place upgrade”. And is the easier way to perform your upgrade. [Read More]
BUG: Creating 11gR2 RAC Using VMware On Toshiba Laptop
I was setting up 11gR2 RAC grid infra on my new Toshiba L745 series laptop on OEL5.4, the installation was going very smoothly but suddenly the VMWare machines crashed while performing remote operations on second node with following message: <span [Read More]
10.2 CRS startup issue
Today I faced a strange issue with CRS post host reboot. CRS was not coming up and we could see following message in $ORA_CRS_HOME/log/<hostname>/client/clsc*.log cat clsc26.log Oracle Database 10g CRS Release 10.2.0.4.0 Production Copyright 1996, 2008 Oracle. All [Read More]
ORA-00132 while starting 11gR2 database
Short post on a error which can take lot of time to debug. You have upgraded a database and after restoring all files (init,tnsnames) try to startup 11g database and it fails with following error SQL> startup nomount ORA-00119: invalid specification for system parameter [Read More]
Adding a reinstalled/reimaged node back to 11gR2 Cluster
There could be a scenario of node crash due to OS/hardware issues and a reinstall/reimage of the same. In such cases, just a normal node addition would not help since the OCR still contain the references of original node. We need to remove them first and then perform a [Read More]
Upgrading Grid Infrastructure 11.2.0.1 to 11.2.0.2 on RHEL4
11.2.0.2 Patchset was released few days back. I decided to upgrade a test RAC database to 11.2.0.2 yesterday and was able to do it successfully. I will be documenting the steps here for easy reference Environment Details 2 node RAC on Red Hat Enterprise Linux AS release 4 [Read More]
Cloning RAC Database with RMAN fails with error
Steps for cloning a RAC database with RMAN is similar to cloning a single instance database. But while using rman duplicate in 10g, you will get following errors RMAN-00571: =========================================================== RMAN-00569: =============== ERROR [Read More]
11gR2 Silent Install errors with [SEVERE] – Invalid My Oracle Support credentials
While performing 11gR2 RAC Database Software installation with response file (silent mode), I got this error. - Invalid My Oracle Support credentials I was using default response files for performing this installation. Searching on MOS (My Oracle Support ), I got a note [Read More]
11gR2: CVU needs SCAN Listeners’ Manual Startup During Grid-Infrastructure Configuration
During configuration phase of Grid Infrastructure for cluster, CVU failed while performing post-checks. Following message is displaced in the Installation Log file: <span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: [Read More]
How To Discover Disk Name When LUN Number is Known (OEL5)
I am creating 11gR2 RAC setup for one of my client. Following Oracle documentation for storage, I opted for Oracle ASM and asked storage team for new physical devices. Storage admin thus provided me with a set of LUNs instead of actual physical device names like [Read More]
