Still not there,...... I've run the following: oracle@rac2:/mnt/oracle/10g/database> netca Oracle Net Services Configuration: rac1... Deleted listener: LISTENER_RAC1 rac2... Deleted listener: LISTENER_RAC2 Oracle Net Services configuration successful. The exit code is 0 then on both nodes (as root): # rootdelete.sh local nosharedvar nosharedhome all looked good # install/rootdeinstall.sh Removing contents from OCR device 2560+0 records in 2560+0 records out 10485760 bytes (10 MB) copied, 0.32744 seconds, 32.0 MB/s rebooted both nodes. oracle@rac1:/u01/app/oracle/oracle/product/10.2.0/db_1/dbs> ps -ef | egrep "crs|css|evm" oracle 7486 4707 0 14:03 pts/1 00:00:00 /bin/grep -E crs|css|evm oracle@rac1:/u01/app/oracle/oracle/product/10.2.0/db_1/dbs> . oraenv ORACLE_SID = [+ASM] ? oracle@rac1:/u01/app/oracle/oracle/product/10.2.0/db_1/dbs> sqlplus / as sysdba SQL*Plus: Release 10.2.0.1.0 - Production on Tue May 19 14:03:28 2009 Copyright (c) 1982, 2005, Oracle. All rights reserved. Connected to an idle instance. 14:03:28 idle> startup pfile=init+ASM.ora ORA-29701: unable to connect to Cluster Manager 14:03:44 idle> !cat init+ASM.ora +ASM.asm_diskgroups='DG1','DG2','FLASH'#Manual Mount *.asm_diskgroups='DG1','DG2','FLASH' *.background_dump_dest='/u01/app/oracle/admin/+ASM/bdump' *.core_dump_dest='/u01/app/oracle/admin/+ASM/cdump' *.instance_type='asm' *.large_pool_size=12M *.remote_login_passwordfile='SHARED' *.user_dump_dest='/u01/app/oracle/admin/+ASM/udump' What tells ASM is *still* in a cluster? The ocr has been blown away. Regards Tony