Failed to start GSD on local node

Question

I am trying to install Oracle 9.2 Real Application Cluster on Linux 7.3.
Everything is OK until DBCA asks to run gsdctl. After running gsdctl start in
several minutes I can see "Failed to start GSD on local node" without any
explanations.
What should I do?

Answer 1

To get more information about the problem, I've seen the following used in the "gsd.sh" script:
exec $JRE -nojit -DPROGRAM=gsd -DTRACING.ENABLED=true -DTRACING.LEVEL=0 -classpath $CLASSPATH oracle.ops.mgmt.daemon.OPSMDaemon $MY_OHOME
Start the gsd with: "gsd.sh" rather than "gsdctl start".
The "TRACING.ENABLED" and "TRACING.LEVEL" will cause the JRE to emit a great deal of debug information. The "nojit" option turns off the "just in time" feature, but I don't know if that's too important (same error, either way). I found this information through some newsgroup. However, I haven't actually gotten the "gsd" daemon to run for more than a few minutes. After a minute or two, the error is as follows:
[main] [20:19:6:880] [OCRTree.<init>:80] Going to load the ocr librarysrvmocr
[main] [20:19:6:883] [OCRTree.<init>:80] loaded ocr libraries
[main] [20:19:6:884] [OCRTree.<init>:80] in OCR constructor
[main] [20:19:6:885] [OCRTree.<init>:80] Initializing OCR: NEW
initializeDaemon: localNodeName = orac01
Native Code Debug is ONinitializeOCR: procr_init retval = 0
SIGSEGV 11* segmentation violation
stackbase=BFFFF308, stackpointer=BFFFC6F4
Full thread dump:
"process reaper" (TID:0x404a4800, sys_thread_t:0x815c8f8, state:CW, thread_t: t@49159, sp:0x0
threadID:0xbfa, stack_base:0x413fba50, stack_size:0x200000) prio=0
java.lang.Thread.run(Thread.java)
"KeepAlive" (TID:0x404a4200, sys_thread_t:0x8148be8, state:CW, thread_t: t@40966, sp:0x0 threadID:0xbf9, stack_base:0x413daa50, stack_size:0x200000) prio=0
sun.rmi.transport.KeepAlive.run(ObjectTable.java:182)
java.lang.Thread.run(Thread.java)
"Reaper" (TID:0x404a3e38, sys_thread_t:0x814ea48, state:CW, thread_t: t@32773, sp:0x0 threadID:0xbf8, stack_base:0x413b9a50, stack_size:0x200000) prio=-1073756771
sun.rmi.transport.Reaper.run(ObjectTable.java:199)
java.lang.Thread.run(Thread.java)
"TCP Accept-1" (TID:0x404a3d88, sys_thread_t:0x8148898, state:R, thread_t: t@24580, sp:0x0 threadID:0xbf7, stack_base:0x41398a50, stack_size:0x200000) prio=-1073756774
java.net.PlainSocketImpl.accept(PlainSocketImpl.java:379)
java.net.ServerSocket.implAccept(ServerSocket.java:199)
java.net.ServerSocket.accept(ServerSocket.java:181)
sun.rmi.transport.proxy.HttpAwareServerSocket.accept(HttpAwareServerSocket.java:70)
sun.rmi.transport.tcp.TCPTransport.run(TCPTransport.java:376)
java.lang.Thread.run(Thread.java)
"SIGQUIT handler" (TID:0x404972a0, sys_thread_t:0x807d768, state:R, thread_t: t@16387, sp:0x0
threadID:0xbf6, stack_base:0x411a7a50, stack_size:0x200000) prio=-1073756763
"Finalizer thread" (TID:0x40497088, sys_thread_t:0x807d640, state:CW, thread_t: t@8194, sp:0x0 threadID:0xbf5, stack_base:0x41186a50, stack_size:0x200000) prio=-1073756763
"main" (TID:0x404970b0, sys_thread_t:0x8064810, state:R, thread_t: t@8192, sp:0x0 threadID:0xbe9, stack_base:0xbffff308, stack_size:0x200000) prio=-1073756763 current thread
oracle.ops.mgmt.rawdevice.OCR.<init>(OCR.java:101)
oracle.ops.mgmt.rawdevice.OCRTree.<init>(OCRTree.java:80)
oracle.ops.mgmt.rawdevice.OCRTree.init(OCRTree.java:93)
oracle.ops.mgmt.rawdevice.RawDeviceConfig.<init>(RawDeviceConfig.java:98)
oracle.ops.mgmt.rawdevice.RawDeviceConfig.init(RawDeviceConfig.java:113)
oracle.ops.mgmt.daemon.OPSMDaemon.<init>(OPSMDaemon.java:207)
oracle.ops.mgmt.daemon.OPSMDaemon.main(OPSMDaemon.java:726)
Monitor Cache Dump:
java.net.PlainSocketImpl@1078606656/1079100848: owner "TCP Accept-1" (0x8148898, 1 entry)
<unknown key> (0x0x8148be8): <unowned>
Waiting to be notified:
"KeepAlive" (0x8148be8)
java.lang.Class@1078622888/1079239192: owner "main" (0x8064810, 1 entry)
<unknown key> (0x0x814ea48): <unowned>
Waiting to be notified:
"Reaper" (0x814ea48)
java.lang.Class@1078623280/1079245648: owner "main" (0x8064810, 1 entry)
Registered Monitor Dump:
Fork_Wait_monitor: <unowned>
Waiting to be notified:
"process reaper" (0x815c8f8)
Thread queue lock: <unowned>
Name and type hash table lock: <unowned>
String intern lock: <unowned>
JNI pinning lock: <unowned>
JNI global reference lock: <unowned>
BinClass lock: <unowned>
Class loading lock: <unowned>
Java stack lock: <unowned>
Code rewrite lock: <unowned>
Heap lock: <unowned>
Has finalization queue lock: <unowned>
Finalize me queue lock: <unowned>
Waiting to be notified:
"Finalizer thread" (0x807d640)
Monitor registry: owner "main" (0x8064810, 1 entry)
Aborted
This error was generated with RedHat Linux 8, the normal edition, and Oracle 9iR2 ORAC. Is this the error you generated? Perhaps we are missing something special about RedHad AS? I would certainly appreciate it if someone could offer specifics.