I should have read this first- Martin's write up is similar to what we found and the fix was to edit racgwrap in $CRS_HOME/bin. In our case srvctl also had an incorrect path with an extra trailing slash. -----Original Message----- From: oracle-l-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx [mailto:oracle-l-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf Of Martin Bach Sent: Tuesday, October 12, 2010 10:12 AM To: oracle-l@xxxxxxxxxxxxx Subject: Re: slightly OT, appears to be Sun OS issue Hi Andrew, this is not limited to Solaris, I have seen similar things in Linux as well, and because it was so strange I had to write about it: http://martincarstenbach.wordpress.com/2009/10/16/connected-to-an-idle-instance-rac-10-2-0-4-1/ Regards, Martin On 12.10.2010 14:53, Matthew Zito wrote: > I’ve seen that happen before – if you shut it down with the //, and then > start it back up with the /, all should be well, iirc. > > The issue is that with the extra // it still knows how to find the -- Martin Bach http://martincarstenbach.wordpress.com http://www.linkedin.com/in/martincarstenbach -- //www.freelists.org/webpage/oracle-l