Showing posts with label ASM. Show all posts
Showing posts with label ASM. Show all posts

Thursday, 14 April 2016

Solving the error - ohasd failed to start (While installing GRID infrastructure on OEL 5+


To solve the CRS-4124 & CRS-4000 error which is occurred during installing grid infrastructure on OEL / RHEL 5+. The error follows (cropped some of the code):
 LOCAL ADD MODE  
 Creating OCR keys for user 'oracle', privgrp 'oinstall'..  
 Operation successful.  
 CRS-4664: Node localhost successfully pinned.  
 Adding daemon to inittab  
 CRS-4124: Oracle High Availability Services startup failed.  
 CRS-4000: Command Start failed, or completed with errors.  
 ohasd failed to start: Inappropriate ioctl for device  
 ohasd failed to start: Inappropriate ioctl for device at /u01/app/oracle/product/11.2.0/grid/crs/install/roothas.pl line 296.

Installing Grid Infrastructure to use ASM on Linux


These steps are tested VirtualBox, it can or can not work on VMWare.
  • First  add virtual hard disks in your VirtualBox / VMWare by going in machine settings.
  • Then create partitions by using fdisk a UNIX/LINUX command. I will show a demo below you just do the same for how many partitions you’ve added earlier in the Step 1. The following will show all the connected partitions.