Yes, the alertlog (which is now in $ORACLE_HOME/log/diag/+asm/.. rather than the usual $ORACLE_BASE/diag/+asm/..) has the warning: WARNING: using default parameter settings without any parameter file I should also note that we use stand-alone ASM, not RAC. No, there is no init+ASM.ora file :( ASM is started by /etc/init.d/ohasd, which I would expect to set the correct environment, but the alertlog also has a complaint that $ORACLE_BASE is not set.. $ORACLE_HOME/crs/log and ../css/log are both empty, and ../ohasd has only a subdirectory called ../ohasd/init which has a 0-byte file with the host name as the file name and a pid file, also with the hostname as its name, i.e. `hostname`.pid. I am not familiar with RAC, should I look in other locations? Thanks, Tony On 04/08/12 11:26, Guillermo Alan Bort wrote: > Oh, btw, did you get an error in the ASM Alert log saying something like > "parameter file not found, using default parameters"? > hth > Alan.- > > > On Fri, Aug 3, 2012 at 10:25 PM, Guillermo Alan Bort > <cicciuxdba@xxxxxxxxx>wrote: > >> In 11.2 the ASM PFILE should be in the OCR/VD diskgroup, This is what I >> don't like about 11.2 RAC, you have a circular dependency on ASM which is >> troublesome. Have you checked the CRS/CSS/OHAS logs? >> >> We do have a init+ASM1.ora file which is in some kind of binary format. >> The original file we had pointed to the SPFILE within ASM. >> spfile='+<Cluster_Name>_OCR/<SCAN>/asmparameterfile/registry.253.777486375' >> >> do you have a init+ASM#.ora in your CRS home? >> >> hth >> Alan.- >> >> >> >> On Fri, Aug 3, 2012 at 9:22 PM, De DBA<dedba@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote: >> >>> It's the default (null) string. The instance SP file is on the diskgroup >>> that it can't mount.. :( I guess that there's a configuration file >>> somewhere not on ASM that causes it to mount the correct disk groups, since >>> the missing diskgroup is mentioned in the alert log errors, even though the >>> disks can't be found? >>> >>> >>> On 04/08/12 09:45, Guillermo Alan Bort wrote: >>> >>>> did you check your disk string? >>>> hth >>>> Alan.- >>>> >>>> >>>> -- >>>> //www.freelists.org/**webpage/oracle-l<//www.freelists.org/webpage/oracle-l> >>>> >>>> >>>> >>>> >>>> > > -- > //www.freelists.org/webpage/oracle-l > > > > -- //www.freelists.org/webpage/oracle-l