ASM install panics installing node

Question

Particulars:
2 node cluster, AIX 6.1 TL01 SP01. 11.1.0.7 CRS is installed, now installing ASM starting with 11.1.0.6(base release). The oui gets about 50% thru then finally dumps with the following error:
JVMDUMP006I
On the second node, it appears the installer copies a number of files with filenames containing special characters. Then when the java dump occurrs, the installing node kernel panics and reboots. Have not found much in the way of log files, the oui logs don't show much. Tomorrow will likely be running an OUI trace. Did find on Metalink a note with similar symptoms but for CRS install and OUI. It basically said to increase the memory size for java in the oraparam.ini. I did that and it still dumps.
Any ideas?
We did open a TAR but not seeing much progress in resolving the issue.
TIA,
Pete's

Answer 1

Hi orafun,
this message:
+WARNING: Error while copying directory /u01/app/oracle/product/10.2.0/db_1 with exclude file list 'null' to nodes 'rac2'. [PRKC-1073 : Failed to transfer directory "/u01/app/oracle/product/10.2.0/db_1" to any of the given nodes "rac2 ".+
+Error on node rac2:Read from remote host rac2: Connection reset by peer]+
Refer to '/u01/app/oracle/oraInventory/logs/installActions2009-04-18_01-30-26PM.log' for details. You may fix the errors on the required remote nodes. Refer to the install guide for error recovery. Click 'Yes' if you want to proceed. Click 'No' to exit the install. Do you want to continue?
INFO: User Selected: Yes/OK
Tells you that the Oracle Home could not be copied onto the remote node. The logs mentioned might tell you more, but this is the reason why ASM cannot be started on the other node - there is no software that could be used to start an ASM instance. Now you said:
"+It appears to me as though the installer was not able to copy over the "/u01/app/oracle/product/10.2.0/db_1" directory to the rac2 node. I do not see any reason for that, I have setup ssh user equivalence for both oracle and root users, ssh and scp seem to work both ways. Permissions should not be an issue on one node and not the other as I replicated the permissions+."
My question would be: What do you try to achieve? IF it is your only interest to "get it done and over with", then you can TAR up the Oracle Database home from which you want to run ASM and un-TAR on the remote node. Given that the paths are all correct, the registration already took place and hence, you can try starting the ASM instance on node2. IF you want to know the reason for the issue, further investigation and more information would be required.
Hope that helps. Thanks,
Markus