Oracle on RHEL4 with ASM problem

[Lunt, Nick]

Hi Mike,

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Mike Ault [mailto:mike at ault.cc]
> Sent: 26 April 2006 15:03
> To: 'General Red Hat Linux discussion list'
> Subject: RE: Oracle on RHEL4 with ASM problem
> 
> 
> I haven't seen the rest of the problem....maybe I can help.
> 
> Mike Ault
> Author: Oracle9i RAC, Oracle10g RAC and Grid from Rampant Press

any help greatly received ;)

Heres our setup -

Software -
RHEL4 Update 2
kernel 2.6.9-22 
Oracle 10.1.0.4

Hardware -
HP Integrity RX4640 IA64 server
ASM using disks on an EVA6000

Problem -
ASM randomly loses access to it's disks. It knows the disks are there but cannot write to them.
We discovered that by stopping and restarting the init.cssd service in /etc/inittab ASM sorted itself out.
Here is the line from /etc/inittab -

h1:35:respawn:/etc/init.d/init.cssd run >/dev/null 2>&1 </dev/null

This is the only way (without a reboot) that we have found to get ASM working again. The DBA's say there are no error messages from oracle and I can't find any on the system.

When we get the problem cssd is still running (as it should respawn anyway) but a clean stop/start of it with 'init q' fixes the ASM problem (temporarily).

The DBA's have raised a tar but not received a response in over a week. If we cant resolve the issue we will have to run oracle without ASM.

Any help you can offer would be appreciated.

Cheers,
Nick .



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