ORA-15031: disk specification '/dev/oraclasm/disks/ASMDATA10' matches no disks
Hi Guru's
OS: RHEL5
DB: 11.2.0
Today i am facing a strange proble while creating Diskgroup in ASM. The scenerio is like :
I create disk partitions from 1-7 during installing 11gr2 db with grid and cretate the disk group DATA and FRA using ASMCA. but after completeing all installation db as well as grid later on i add 4 disks and start the server. and add those disk by using oracleasm create disk commad and check the disks are properly listed while checking using oracleasm listdisks
But when i try to create disk group using command prompt:-
SQL> CREATE DISKGROUP DATA1
EXTERNAL REDUNDANCY
DISK '/dev/oracleasm/disks/ASMDATA10';
I am getting error as:-
ORA-15018: diskgroup cannot be created
ORA-15031: disk specifications '/dev/oracleasm/disks/ASMDATA10' matches no disks
ORA-15014: path '/dev/oracleasm/disks/ASMDATA10' is not in the discovery set
But when i try to create the diskgroup using asmca i am able to create the disk group DATA1
why this is happening
any idea about the same
Thanks in advance.
SQL> SELECT NAME,PATH,STATE,MOUNT_STATUS,HEADER_STATUS,GROUP_NUMBER FROM V$ASM_DISK;
NAME PATH STATE
MOUNT_S HEADER_STATU GROUP_NUMBER
ORCL:ASMDATA7 NORMAL
CLOSED FORMER 0
ORCL:ASMDATA10 NORMAL
CLOSED PROVISIONED 0
ORCL:ASMDATA8 NORMAL
CLOSED FORMER 0
NAME PATH STATE
MOUNT_S HEADER_STATU GROUP_NUMBER
ORCL:ASMDATA9 NORMAL
CLOSED PROVISIONED 0
ASMDATA1 ORCL:ASMDATA1 NORMAL
CACHED MEMBER 1
ASMDATA2 ORCL:ASMDATA2 NORMAL
CACHED MEMBER 1
NAME PATH STATE
MOUNT_S HEADER_STATU GROUP_NUMBER
ASMDATA3 ORCL:ASMDATA3 NORMAL
CACHED MEMBER 1
ASMDATA4 ORCL:ASMDATA4 NORMAL
CACHED MEMBER 1
ASMDATA5 ORCL:ASMDATA5 NORMAL
CACHED MEMBER 2
NAME PATH STATE
MOUNT_S HEADER_STATU GROUP_NUMBER
ASMDATA6 ORCL:ASMDATA6 NORMAL
CACHED MEMBER 2
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fdisk
create new partition
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cat <<EOF >> $HOME/x.x
this is a test
EOF
node1
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node2
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node1
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oracleasm-2.6.18-371.12.1.el5-2.0.5-1.el5
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After 2 weeks from the completely recover of the environment, without any error/failure message been received from it, the disk groups started to dismount unexpectedly, from whatever node and not only one specific disk group stops, but any one of them, any time.
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Simultaneously I opened a Case Solution in RedHat to help me identify the better way to do the upgrade in advantage of the Oracle specifications.
From:
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rpm -qa | grep kernel
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kernel-2.6.18-371.12.1.el5
kernel-headers-2.6.18-371.12.1.el5
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oracleasmlib-2.0.4-1.el5
Well, after this upgrade less times the disk groups dismounted, but they continue dismounting from whatever node, any disk group, any time.
So, I opened another SR in Metalink (3-10143566371 still open) and they are conducting me again to upgrade the RedHat kernel version and OracleASM version.
Information about OracleASM:
# oracleasm listdisks
ACFS
FRA
OCR01
OCR02
OCR03
$ asmcmd -p
ASMCMD [+] > ls -l
State Type Rebal Name
MOUNTED EXTERN N ACFS/
MOUNTED EXTERN N ARCH/
MOUNTED EXTERN N DEV/
MOUNTED EXTERN N DIR_LOG/
MOUNTED EXTERN N JAVA_ARCHIVE/
MOUNTED EXTERN N MSAF/
MOUNTED NORMAL N OCR/
MOUNTED EXTERN N PRD_DATA/
MOUNTED EXTERN N PRD_REDO1/
MOUNTED EXTERN N PRD_REDO2/
MOUNTED EXTERN N PRD_REDO3/
MOUNTED EXTERN N PRD_REDO4/
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Another: "Oracle really understood what is happening and they can help me to solve this problem?"
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my two cent.
Wait for the SR feedback.
But for the future I advice you to do an ASM Metadata backup to be able to restore this data if you lost
configurations or complete disks and so on.
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Windows No Disk
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Then another time I asked for a RAM upgrade from 4GB to 8GB, they wanted to charge $400 + $35 for the labor.
The same RAM is on Crucial.com for $90 and all I need is a 00 micro phillips screwdriver.
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"Disk Utility has lost its connection with the Disk Management Tool and cannot continue. Please quit and relaunch Disk Utility."
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*** malloc[419]: Deallocation of a pointer not malloced: 0x290a410; This could be a double free(), or free() called with the middle of an allocated block; Try setting environment variable MallocHelp to see tools to help debug : for architecture i386 object: ./Applications/iTunes.app/Contents/MacOS/iTunes malformed object (unknown flavor for flavor number 0 in LC_UNIXTHREAD command 27 can't byte swap it)
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Quit Disk Utility.
From the Finder's Go menu, choose Go to Folder....
Type the following, then click OK: /Library/Receipts
Temporarily remove these iTunes receipts from /Library/Receipts (sort the folder alphabetically as a list):
iTunes.pkg
iTunes4.pkg
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Open Disk Utility and repair disk permissions again.
Quit Disk Utility.
Put the removed iTunes receipts back in /Library/Receipts.
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I need help on restoring my disk capacity back to normal. I installed window 7 into the partition disk through bootcamp and I deleted it from disk utility. After I erase the partition disk,I get my capacity to 499GB but not 750GB. Do I need to reinstall my MacBook or something to do with the restoring?
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Rodney Lai wrote:
I installed window 7 into the partition disk through bootcamp and I deleted it from disk utility
You shouldn't do it. You have to erase the Windows volume with Boot Camp Assistant, so it will restore the space onto the OS X volume and that volume will have 750 GB.
As you did it with Disk Utility, you have to resize your OS X partition manually:
1. Open Disk Utility, select your hard disk at the top of the sidebar, and go to Partition tab.
2. You will see a bar with Macintosh HD. You have to click it at the bottom right corner and drag it to the end of the bar, so Macintosh HD will use all the space of the hard drive, and press Apply.
3. Close Disk Utility and your OS X partition will have 750 GB
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