Wednesday, April 14, 2010

On AIX, VIP fails to come up, with error "Invalid Parameters, Or Failed To Bring Up VIP".

Modify the line containing ENTSTAT in $ORA_CRS_HOME/bin/racgvip script as follows:

$ENTSTAT -d $_IF | $GREP -iEq
'.*lan.*state.*:.*operational.*|
.*link.*status.*:.*up.*|
.*port.*operational.*state.*:.*up.*|
.*driver.*flags.*:.*up.*'

Wednesday, April 7, 2010

Oracle RAC 11gR2: root.sh fails

Problem:
root.sh fails with the following error:
CRS-4124: Oracle High Availability Services startup failed.
CRS-4000: Command Start failed, or completed with errors.
ohasd failed to start: A specified file does not support the ioctl system call.
ohasd failed to start at /oracle/product/11.2.0/gridhome/crs/install/rootcrs.pl line 451.


Solution:
  • Clean the following directories:
/etc/oracle,
/var/tmp/.oracle
/tmp/.oracle
  • Rerun root.sh