Re: Clusterware 11.1.0.6 install

  • From: Stefan Knecht <knecht.stefan@xxxxxxxxx>
  • To: ORACLE-L <oracle-l@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
  • Date: Wed, 25 Feb 2009 22:34:39 +0100

Just FYI

We've found out that reading only the last 20k of the devices in question
resultet in I/O errors. Even with dd.

Rebooting the machine solved it -- not happy at all with the solution, but
at least we could continue.

Cheers to all who replied

Stefan

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On Wed, Feb 25, 2009 at 8:06 PM, Stefan Knecht <knecht.stefan@xxxxxxxxx>wrote:

> Hello all
>
> having some problems that I can't see the reason for ... I've gone through
> the installation of the clusterware with OUI. Then, when asked to run
> root.sh, following happens:
>
> ./root.sh
> WARNING: directory '/opt/app/oracle/product' is not owned by root
> Checking to see if Oracle CRS stack is already configured
>
> Setting the permissions on OCR backup directory
> Setting up Network socket directories
> PROT-1: Failed to initialize ocrconfig
> Failed to upgrade Oracle Cluster Registry configuration
>
> The "not owned by root" can be ignored. The problem is this, in
> log/`hostname`/client/ocrconfig_PID.log:
>
> Oracle Database 11g CRS Release 11.1.0.6.0 - Production Copyright 1996,
> 2007 Oracle. All rights reserved.
> 2009-02-25 19:57:03.484: [ default][2554967072]proa_lms_init:1: LMS init
> successful
> 2009-02-25 19:57:03.502: [  OCROSD][2554967072]utsz:4: Error in reading
> 2009-02-25 19:57:03.502: [  OCROSD][2554967072]utfill:11: Could not get
> geometry of rawdevice errno=5,  errstring = Input/output error
> 2009-02-25 19:57:03.510: [  OCROSD][2554967072]utsz:4: Error in reading
> 2009-02-25 19:57:03.510: [  OCROSD][2554967072]utfill:11: Could not get
> geometry of rawdevice errno=5,  errstring = Input/output error
> 2009-02-25 19:57:03.510: [  OCROSD][2554967072]utopen:10:None of the OCR
> devices are usable
> 2009-02-25 19:57:03.510: [  OCRRAW][2554967072]proprinit: Could not open
> raw device
> 2009-02-25 19:57:03.510: [ default][2554967072]a_init:7!: Backend init
> unsuccessful : [26]
> [ default][2554967072]a_get_last_error: Buf too small (80, 110)
> 2009-02-25 19:57:03.511: [ OCRCONF][2554967072]ocrconfig starts...
> 2009-02-25 19:57:03.511: [ OCRCONF][2554967072]Upgrading OCR data
> 2009-02-25 19:57:03.511: [ default][2554967072]proa_lms_init:1: LMS init
> successful
> 2009-02-25 19:57:03.528: [  OCROSD][2554967072]utsz:4: Error in reading
> 2009-02-25 19:57:03.528: [  OCROSD][2554967072]utfill:11: Could not get
> geometry of rawdevice errno=5,  errstring = Input/output error
> 2009-02-25 19:57:03.537: [  OCROSD][2554967072]utsz:4: Error in reading
> 2009-02-25 19:57:03.537: [  OCROSD][2554967072]utfill:11: Could not get
> geometry of rawdevice errno=5,  errstring = Input/output error
> 2009-02-25 19:57:03.537: [  OCROSD][2554967072]utopen:10:None of the OCR
> devices are usable
> 2009-02-25 19:57:03.537: [  OCRRAW][2554967072]proprinit: Could not open
> raw device
> 2009-02-25 19:57:03.537: [ default][2554967072]a_init:7!: Backend init
> unsuccessful : [26]
>
> This appears to be an issue with the OCR devices... However, they're
> readable and writable:
>
> --- 40 # dd if=/dev/emcpowerr of=/tmp/test bs=1024 count=1024
> 1024+0 records in
> 1024+0 records out
>
>
> --- 41 # dd if=/tmp/test of=/dev/emcpowerr bs=1024 count=1024
> 1024+0 records in
> 1024+0 records out
>
> For some reason, during the install of the software, when asked to enter
> the names for the OCR disks in OUI, the owner needed to be oracle:dba. So it
> was.
>
> Now, after root.sh exits, the owner is changed to root. I don't see any
> evidence of a chown inside the scripts called by root.sh -- so it must be
> the binary doing this (????)
>
> Checking on another, working install of 11g, the owner is oracle:dba (which
> makes sense).
>
> Any ideas on what else I could check ?
>
> Opening an SR as we speak, but perhaps someone else has fallen down this
> pit before :)
>
> Cheers
>
> Stefan
>
>
>
>
>
> =========================
>
> Stefan P Knecht
> CEO & Founder
> s@xxxxxxxx
>
> 10046 Consulting GmbH
> Schwarzackerstrasse 29
> CH-8304 Wallisellen
> Switzerland
>
> Phone +41-(0)8400-10046
> Cell +41 (0) 79 571 36 27
> info@xxxxxxxx
> http://www.10046.ch
>
> =========================
>

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