RE: ASM Startup Help!

So I'm more positive than Scott is.  Wonder why that might be?  ;)

The first thing I can think to check is if the permissions or access to the=
 devices has been changed on reboot. The order in which the disks are found=
 by the RH3 OS can sometimes change on reboot and the persistent binding do=
ne between the raw/raw devices and the raw character devices can sometimes =
get clobbered.  The permissions will sometimes be set for certain devices b=
ased on the device number.  If the order gets changed and permissions are n=
ot accurate, that too can cause a device to not be discovered.  This might =
be the cause and it might not be.  One other question, as Scott mentioned, =
is whether you are using ASMLIB or not?  If so, the above problems are not =
normally an issue.  The second question is does this ASM disk group have AS=
M redundancy or external redundancy?

Of course, you could always try calling support...

BTW, the PST stands for Partner Status Table and the error message suggest =
to me that the disk group does not have the full complement of disks which =
it needs to mount the disk group.

 =

Pete
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"Controlling developers is like herding cats."
Kevin Loney, Oracle DBA Handbook
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-----Original Message-----
From: oracle-l-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx [mailto:oracle-l-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx] =
On Behalf Of Scott
Sent: Wednesday, 22 December 2004 3:11 AM
To: Michael Saffitz
Cc: oracle-l@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
Subject: Re: ASM Startup Help!

Mike, I hate to be the bearer of bad news but I have
seen this before when using ASM libs. The case of the
disappearing disks. I have had this happen to me on
several occasions and now I just don't use the ASM
libs anymore. =


The only way your are going to fix this problem is to
dd over the device and try to add the disks back into
the disk group.

I hope you don't have critical stuff on that
diskgroup.

Scott


--- Michael Saffitz <m@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

> =

> Yes
> =

> =

> Scott wrote:
> > Mike, Are you using ASMLIBS? =

> > =

> > Scott
> > =

> > =

> > =

> > --- Michael Saffitz <m@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> > =

> > =

> >>Hello,
> >>
> >>I'm having difficulties starting ASM on RAC.  This
> >>was previously
> >>working, the nodes were rebooted, and is now
> >>failing.  These are
> >>production databases, so any help is greatly
> >>appreciated:
> >>
> >>SQL> startup;
> >>ASM instance started
> >>
> >>Total System Global Area   75497472 bytes
> >>Fixed Size                   777772 bytes
> >>Variable Size              74719700 bytes
> >>Database Buffers                  0 bytes
> >>Redo Buffers                      0 bytes
> >>ORA-15032: not all alterations performed
> >>ORA-15063: diskgroup "STK" lacks quorum of 2 PST
> >>disks; 0 found
> >>
> >>
> >>the alert log displays:
> >>
> >>NOTE: cache registered group STK number=3D1
> >>incarn=3D0x8f081786
> >>NOTE: cache dismounting group 1/0x8F081786 (STK)
> >>NOTE: dbwr not being msg'd to dismount
> >>ERROR: diskgroup STK was not mounted
> >>
> >>The disks are showing up properly in the OS (RHEL
> >>v3).
> >>
> >>Thanks in advance!
> >>
> >>Mike
> >>
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