What are you seeing in your ASM alert log? Try starting it just using sqlplus and check the alert log. -Randy _____ From: oracle-l-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx [mailto:oracle-l-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf Of Murtuja Khokhar Sent: Tuesday, September 04, 2007 3:36 AM To: freelists Subject: RAC ASM error Hi, Environment: Oracle 10.2.0.1.0 Standrad Edition Solaris 10 (sparc 64bit) I am using Oracle Clusterware only. I have configure ASM instance on two nodes.I can start both ASM instances without any error.but when I give crs_stat -t Name Type Target State Host ------------------------------------------------------------ ora....SM2.asm application ONLINE UNKNOWN bull...rac2 ora....C2.lsnr application ONLINE ONLINE bull...rac2 ora....ac2.gsd application ONLINE ONLINE bull...rac2 ora....ac2.ons application ONLINE ONLINE bull...rac2 ora....ac2.vip application ONLINE ONLINE bull...rac2 ora....SM1.asm application ONLINE UNKNOWN catf...rac1 ora....C1.lsnr application ONLINE ONLINE catf...rac1 ora....ac1.gsd application ONLINE ONLINE catf...rac1 ora....ac1.ons application ONLINE ONLINE catf...rac1 ora....ac1.vip application ONLINE ONLINE catf...rac1 so I tried to start ASM using srvctl srvctl start asm -n bullhead-rac2 It's giving me below error: PRKS-1009 : Failed to start ASM instance "+ASM2" on node "bullhead-rac2", [PRKS-1009 : Failed to start ASM instance "+ASM2" on node "bullhead-rac2", [CRS-1028: Dependency analysis failed because of: CRS-0223: Resource 'ora.bullhead-rac2.ASM2.asm' has placement error.]] [PRKS-1009 : Failed to start ASM instance "+ASM2" on node "bullhead-rac2", [CRS-1028: Dependency analysis failed because of: CRS-0223: Resource 'ora.bullhead-rac2.ASM2.asm' has placement error.]] _____ Got a little couch potato? Check out fun HYPERLINK "http://us.rd.yahoo.com/evt=48248/*http://search.yahoo.com/search?fr=oni_on_ mail&p=summer+activities+for+kids&cs=bz"summer activities for kids. No virus found in this incoming message. Checked by AVG Free Edition. Version: 7.5.485 / Virus Database: 269.13.5/988 - Release Date: 9/4/2007 9:14 AM No virus found in this outgoing message. Checked by AVG Free Edition. Version: 7.5.485 / Virus Database: 269.13.5/988 - Release Date: 9/4/2007 9:14 AM