Asm, instance and service failing to start 10g rac redhat el5

Question

hi,
i have been following a how to guide from oracle's website about implementing a 10g rac system using el5 (http://www.oracle.com/technology/pub/articles/hunter_rac10gr2_iscsi.html), by the end of the installation and setup I had both the nodes up and running and all services were up and running. Then under the root account I rebooted one of the nodes. now when I check the status of the services I get this:
[oracle@rac01 ~]$ crs_stat -t
Name           Type           Target    State     Host
ora.orcl.db    application    ONLINE    ONLINE    rac01
ora...._taf.cs application    ONLINE    ONLINE    rac02
ora....cl1.srv application    ONLINE    OFFLINE
ora....cl2.srv application    ONLINE    ONLINE    rac02
ora....l1.inst application    OFFLINE   OFFLINE
ora....l2.inst application    ONLINE    ONLINE    rac02
ora....SM1.asm application    OFFLINE   OFFLINE
ora....01.lsnr application    ONLINE    ONLINE    rac01
ora.rac01.gsd  application    ONLINE    ONLINE    rac01
ora.rac01.ons  application    ONLINE    ONLINE    rac01
ora.rac01.vip  application    ONLINE    ONLINE    rac01
ora....SM2.asm application    ONLINE    ONLINE    rac02
ora....02.lsnr application    ONLINE    ONLINE    rac02
ora.rac02.gsd  application    ONLINE    ONLINE    rac02
ora.rac02.ons  application    ONLINE    ONLINE    rac02
ora.rac02.vip  application    ONLINE    ONLINE    rac02though I can start the asm instance manually by
srvctl start asm -n rac01and it starts but the instance and service on the rebooted node still wont start. is there a log file which tells me what the error is when it tries to start the instance? what can I do to ensure that if a node is rebooted that all of the services get started correctly and the node automatically rejoins the cluster (i thought I had set all of this from the instructions of the guide I was following).
Regards
Martin.

Answer 1

Check ASM resource:
crs_stat -p "resource_name
$ crs_stat | grep NAME\= | grep ASM1
NAME=ora.rac01.ASM1.asm
$ crs_stat -p ora.rac01.ASM1.asm
NAME=ora.rac01.ASM1.asm
TYPE=application
ACTIVE_PLACEMENT=0
*AUTO_START*=1
CHECK_INTERVAL=600
DESCRIPTION=CRS application for ASM instance
What do you see AUTO_START?
if 1 = auto start:
or check error ASM while start... at ASM_HOME/log/rac01/racg/*
If AUTO_START=2
Oracle Clusterware is configured to start the VIP, listener, instance, ASM, database services and other resources during system boot. Starting with 10.1.0.4, it is possible to modify some resources to have their profile parameter AUTO_START set to the value 2. This means that after node reboot, or when Oracle Clusterware is started, resources with AUTO_START=2 will need to be started manually via srvctl. Please work with Oracle Support if you need to modify this attribute.
If AUTO_START=2 and need to change to 1:
Example:
$ crs_stat -p ora.rac01.ASM1.asm
NAME=ora.rac01.ASM1.asm
TYPE=application
ACTIVE_PLACEMENT=0
AUTO_START=2
$ crs_stat -p ora.rac01.ASM1.asm > ORA_CRS_HOME/crs/public/ora.rac01.ASM1.asm
$ crs_unregister ora.rac01.ASM1.asm
$ crs_stat -p ora.rac01.ASM1.asm
CRS-0210: Could not find resource 'ora.rac01.ASM1.asm
$ vi ORA_CRS_HOME/crs/public/ora.rac01.ASM1.asm.cap
AUTO_START=2
to
AUTO_START=1
$ crs_register ora.rac01.ASM1.asm
$ crs_stat -p ora.rac01.ASM1.asm
NAME=ora.rac01.ASM1.asm
TYPE=application
*AUTO_START=1*
Edited by: Surachart Opun (HunterX) on Jul 31, 2009 1:06 PM