Robert Bialek schrieb: >> >> >> nope, tried that before, didn't work. ASM instance still terminates. >> Oracle is currently investigating the issue. their last comment was: >> it should work :) >> > Yes it should... At least in my test environment I'm not able to > reproduce the problem. The ASM spfile > recreation works... thanks for trying to reproduce it. anything special in your pfile? this is mine: +ASM1.__oracle_base='/opt/oracle/base'#ORACLE_BASE set from in memory value +ASM2.__oracle_base='/opt/oracle/base'#ORACLE_BASE set from in memory value +ASM1.asm_diskgroups='RECO'#Manual Mount +ASM2.asm_diskgroups='RECO'#Manual Mount *.asm_power_limit=1 *.diagnostic_dest='/opt/oracle/base' *.instance_type='asm' *.large_pool_size=12M *.remote_login_passwordfile='EXCLUSIVE' and could you send me the ASM alert.log from a manual startup with pfile please? regards, -ap -- //www.freelists.org/webpage/oracle-l