Rajeev, Thank you very much for your detailed information! I tried your step 1, 2, 3 and dbca generated a lot of information, from the output on the screen I couldn't find any information that's very obvious. where is the trace file located? I looked around but couldn't find it :( I also tried step 4 without luck. it gave me this information after I chose ASM as my storage: Error when starting ASM instance on node racnode1: PRKS-1009: Failed to start ASM instance "+ASM1" on node "racnode1", [CRS_0233: Resource or relatives are currently involved with another operation.]] after I clicked "OK", I gave me the same error in my first email. Thanks everybody who took the time to reply, I really appreciate it! -Li On Dec 13, 2007 5:13 AM, Rajeev Prabhakar <rprabha01@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: > Hello Li > > Could you please try the following and see if it helps ? > > 1) make a copy of dbca file (saved version). > > 2) add -DDEBUG keyword to dbca script. > > e.g. > > $JRE_DIR/bin/java -Dsun.java2d.font.DisableAlgorithmicStyles=true -DDEBUG > -DORACLE_HOME=$OH -DDISPLAY=$DISPLAY -DJDBC_PROTOCOL=thin -mx128m -classpath > $CLASSPATH oracle.sysman.assistants.dbca.Dbca $ARGUMENTS > > 3) Once you run the modified dbca, the debug messages should get written > to a log file. Look at the log file and see if you find anything worth > investigating. > > In case you find "No endpoint found for the Listener", make sure that > listener name mentioned in listener.ora is the one registered with OCR. > > 4) Another thing which you could try OR verify is that oratab has entry > for node specific ASM instance. If it has correct entries, shutdown ASM > instance > manually, then launch DBCA and let is start ASM instance on that node by > itself. > > HTH > Rajeev > On Dec 12, 2007 4:51 PM, Li Li <litanli@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: > > > Hi, List, > > > > I am testing to setup a 2-node RAC environment with separate > > owner/ORACLE_HOME for crs, ASM, and database, it's 10gR2 on Redhat AS 4. > > > > 2 users are created: oracle and oraclex, oracle owns clusterware home > > and ASM home, oraclex owns database home. > > > > first, I login as oracle and installed clusterware and database software > > (in 2 different oracle home of course), configured and started ASM instance, > > everything worked fine. > > > > second, I login as oraclex and installed database software, then I tried > > to create a database using dbca, but I ran into error when I chose ASM as my > > database storage, the error is: > > "DBCA could not startup the 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?" > > > > But the ASM instance IS already running. I am guessing this must be > > because of some permission issue but I am not sure what I am missing. I have > > oracle and oraclex both have "oinstall" as primary group and "dba" as second > > group. > > > > I googled but cannot find any useful information. Can anybody give me > > some suggestion? Any comment would be greatly appreciated! > > > > Thanks, > > -Li > > > > > > > >