Bill, It is possible your Ocr device has been overwritten/wiped out. You can do a strings on ocr device, or run ocrcheck/ocrdump (in $ORA_CRS_HOME/bin) to check sanity. To locate ocr device, $ locate ocr.loc /etc/oracle/ocr.loc $ cat /etc/oracle/ocr.loc ocrconfig_loc=/u02/oradata/ocr local_only=FALSE $ strings /u02/oradata/ocr|more Thanks, Ravi. -----Original Message----- From: oracle-l-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx [mailto:oracle-l-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf Of William Wagman Sent: Tuesday, April 03, 2007 1:03 PM To: Dyno Fu Cc: Niall Litchfield; oracle-l@xxxxxxxxxxxxx Subject: RE: CRS install failing Hi, In the first few lines I see the following... 2007-03-29 15:31:06.045: [ OCRRAW][3076419712]propriogid:1: INVALID FORMAT 2007-03-29 15:31:06.046: [ OCRRAW][3076419712]ibctx:1:ERROR: INVALID FORMAT 2007-03-29 15:31:06.046: [ OCRRAW][3076419712]proprinit:problem reading the bootblock or superbloc 22 2007-03-29 15:31:06.049: [ default][3076419712]a_init:7!: Backend init unsuccessful : [22] 2007-03-29 15:31:06.049: [ CSSCLNT][3076419712]clsssinit: error(22 PROC-22: The OCR backend has an invalid format) in OCR initialization I have no idea what that means, I will see if I can find more information. If you know what that means I would appreciate the help. Crs_stat returns CRS-0184: Cannot communicate with the OCR daemon which makes sense (I think) as CRS is not started. I have not looked at ocrdumpo, I will do that. Bill Wagman Univ. of California at Davis IET Campus Data Center wjwagman@xxxxxxxxxxx (530) 754-6208 -----Original Message----- From: Dyno Fu [mailto:dyno.dba@xxxxxxxxx] Sent: Monday, April 02, 2007 9:26 PM To: William Wagman Cc: Niall Litchfield; oracle-l@xxxxxxxxxxxxx Subject: Re: CRS install failing William, oerr prif 12 000012,0, "failed to initialize cluster support services" // *Cause: The cluster support services module was not configured correctly. // *Action: Check the messages in the log file oifcfg.log. so what is in oifcfg.log? and what is your RAC configuration, i mean, where you put the CSS, OCR file etc. and the output of crs_stat, ocrdump? rgds, Dyno On 4/2/07, William Wagman <wjwagman@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > Niall, > > I've done both of those. Unfortunately I never seem to be able to find > any support people at Oracle who understand or have a knowledge of RAC. > Oh well. > > Thanks. > -- //www.freelists.org/webpage/oracle-l -- //www.freelists.org/webpage/oracle-l