Hi, I have installed the oracle RAC on the RHEL5.3 vmaware. oracle cluster version: 11.2.0.1 I got the below error while running root.sh on the first node. CRS-2676: Start of 'ora.ctssd' on 'rac1' succeeded Creation of ASM spfile in diskgroup failed. Following error occured: ORA-29783: GPnP attribute SET failed with error [CLSGPNP_RD_ERR] Please help us on this. Regards Krishna Please find the complete error as follows. CRS-2676: Start of 'ora.gpnpd' on 'rac1' succeeded CRS-2672: Attempting to start 'ora.cssdmonitor' on 'rac1' CRS-2676: Start of 'ora.cssdmonitor' on 'rac1' succeeded CRS-2672: Attempting to start 'ora.cssd' on 'rac1' CRS-2672: Attempting to start 'ora.diskmon' on 'rac1' CRS-2676: Start of 'ora.diskmon' on 'rac1' succeeded CRS-2676: Start of 'ora.cssd' on 'rac1' succeeded CRS-2672: Attempting to start 'ora.ctssd' on 'rac1' CRS-2676: Start of 'ora.ctssd' on 'rac1' succeeded Creation of ASM spfile in diskgroup failed. Following error occured: ORA-29783: GPnP attribute SET failed with error [CLSGPNP_RD_ERR] Configuration of ASM failed, see logs for details Did not succssfully configure and start ASM CRS-2500: Cannot stop resource 'ora.crsd' as it is not running CRS-4000: Command Stop failed, or completed with errors. Command return code of 1 (256) from command: /u02/app/11.2.0/grid/bin/crsctl stop resource ora.crsd -init Stop of resource "ora.crsd -init" failed Failed to stop CRSD CRS-2673: Attempting to stop 'ora.asm' on 'rac1' CRS-2677: Stop of 'ora.asm' on 'rac1' succeeded CRS-2673: Attempting to stop 'ora.ctssd' on 'rac1' CRS-2677: Stop of 'ora.ctssd' on 'rac1' succeeded CRS-2673: Attempting to stop 'ora.cssdmonitor' on 'rac1' -- //www.freelists.org/webpage/oracle-l