Alex, After getting tired of trying out different things, we thought to remove the database and ASM instance and recreate it. The remove database went fine but ASM removal is still a pain. We have an open SR with Oracle on this issue and a solution is still far sighted. My colleague Charles Schultz has another thread on this forum on this issue titled "srvctl remove asm generates PRKS-1033 and CRS-0214" Thanks for all your suggestions, however, - Ravi On 7/24/07, Alex Gorbachev <ag@xxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
So here is the logic - you ASM is up but dbca doesn't see it. If I recall correctly, it contacts ASM via listener so you want to make sure that your ASM instances are registered with listeners and have password file set/created. Perhaps, you could find sqlnet.log file created with connection error. Check that you have listener running and etc. On 7/23/07, Ravi Gaur < ravigaur1@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: > > Hi all, > > We've a 2-node RAC cluster with a database up and running using ASM and > we're trying to add another database to the cluster via DBCA. It shows up a > popup with the following message at the "storage options" screen in dbca -- > > DBCA could not start ASM instance configured on this node. To proceed > with database creation using ASM you need the ASM instance to be up and > running. Do you want to recreate the ASM instance on this node? > > The OS is Linux4 and the database is 10.2.0.3. ASM is seen OK from > sqlplus and EM finds it healthy. I've an SR open with Oracle but I suspect > it will take longer to diagnose the issue and thought if anyone had any tips > etc to check. We're not getting any hits on Google and/or metalink. > > TIA, > > - Ravi Gaur > Lead Systems DBA > Univ of IL. > -- Alex Gorbachev, Oracle DBA Brewer, The Pythian Group http://www.pythian.com/blogs/author/alex http://www.oracloid.com BAAG party - www.BattleAgainstAnyGuess.com