Oracleasm Createdisk error

Hello ,
I have just been trying to label oracle disk.
here is the error I get .
[db]# oracleasm createdisk DNAT01 /dev/sddc1
Unable to open device "/dev/sddc": Device or resource busy
I have already tried the solutions that were listed for this problem, but no success.
SELINUX is already disabled.
here is some additional info ...
[db]# oracleasm querydisk /dev/sddc1
Device "/dev/sddc1" is not marked as an ASM disk
[db]# oracleasm status
Checking if ASM is loaded: yes
Checking if /dev/oracleasm is mounted: yes
[db]# oracleasm configure
ORACLEASM_ENABLED=true
ORACLEASM_UID=oracle
ORACLEASM_GID=dba
ORACLEASM_SCANBOOT=true
ORACLEASM_SCANORDER=""
ORACLEASM_SCANEXCLUDE=""
Can someone help he find the solution to this problem? . highly appreciate.
Linux version is 5.3 .. running oracle 11g R2
Thanks
Saad
Edited by: Saad on Sep 18, 2011 12:45 AM

This is the metalink note, 1303976.1, I was talking about. This is another way to prove that device is busy, which we have already proved that device is busy (means used by one thing or another). Once you get mkfs working then creatdisk should work with no errors.
You can double, check that LVM, mount, RAID, MP, or similar thing is not already accessing the disk in question. For MP, you can shutdown another node, pull the cable from 2nd HBA/port and try it again. Due to limited access to your environment and due to lack of any logs, I think the options are just hit and trial and find out what is using that device. There are specific steps to implement mp, and please make sure no other VM or RAID is causing this issue.
Thanks,
Rohit Chandok
http://www.rohitchandok.com

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Here is the output of ls command for my partition. This time I have created it with fdisk.
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brw-rw-rw- 1 root disk 8, 12 Apr 19 2007 /dev/sda12
The problem still exists. Nobody knows the reason?!

Oracleasm lib failed to load with "Invalid module format" error

Hi,
I'm tring to install the oracleasm lib onto our hardened Redhat EL5 server
I've download the oracleasm rpm from this page http://www.oracle.com/technology/software/tech/linux/asmlib/rhel5.html.
We're using Redhat 5 U 2
[root@PG673 modules]# uname -rm
2.6.18-92.el5 x86_64
[root@PG673 modules]#
The package I downloaded is an exact match with our kernel version
[root@PG673 modules]# rpm -qa | grep asm
oracleasm-2.6.18-92.el5-2.0.5-1.el5
oracleasm-support-2.1.3-1.el5
oracleasm-support-2.1.3-1.el5
oracleasm-2.6.18-92.el5-2.0.5-1.el5
oracleasmlib-2.0.4-1.el5
oracleasmlib-2.0.4-1.el5
[root@PG673 modules]#
RPM installation went well, but when we run the /etc/init.d/oracleasm configure command, we hit the following error
[root@PG673 other]# /etc/init.d/oracleasm configure
/etc/init.d/oracleasm: line 207: /usr/sbin/oracleasm: cannot execute binary file
Later we found out that the oracleasm module haven't been loaded, so we try to load it manually, but we hit the "Invalid module format" error.
[root@PG673 modules]# modprobe -l | grep asm
/lib/modules/2.6.18-92.el5/kernel/drivers/addon/oracleasm/oracleasm.ko
[root@PG673 modules]# modprobe oracleasm
FATAL: Error inserting oracleasm (/lib/modules/2.6.18-92.el5/kernel/drivers/addon/oracleasm/oracleasm.ko): Invalid module format
[root@PG673 modules]#
As I know this error could happen if the driver version is not match with the system kernel version.
The problem is we're already using an exact match version of driver with our system, I can't think of what to do next in order to proceed the installation.
Really appreciate if someone could point me a direction.
Thanks
Mike

Hi Mike,
something looks a bit strange for me. On my OEL 5.4 x64 system i have just the following 3 packages:
$ rpm -qa | grep asm
oracleasm-2.6.18-164.el5-2.0.5-1.el5
oracleasm-support-2.1.3-1.el5
oracleasmlib-2.0.4-1.el5 Your packages should be I think the following:
http://oss.oracle.com/projects/oracleasm-support/dist/files/RPMS/rhel5/amd64/2.1.3/oracleasm-support-2.1.3-1.el5.x86_64.rpm
http://otn.oracle.com/software/tech/linux/asmlib/files/RPMS/rhel5/amd64/2.0.4/oracleasmlib-2.0.4-1.el5.x86_64.rpm
http://oss.oracle.com/projects/oracleasm/dist/files/RPMS/rhel5/amd64/2.0.5/2.6.18-92.el5/oracleasm-2.6.18-92.el5-2.0.5-1.el5.x86_64.rpm
Uninstall all asm packages and retry with just those three.
Good luck!
Cheers,
David
OCP 9i / 10g
http://www.oratoolkit.ch/knowledge/howto/installation/otn.php

Problem with oracleasm

Hi,
I have a problem with oracleasm.
I marking disk /etc/init.d/oracleasm createdisk VOL1 /dev/sdb1
The marking disk "/dev/sdb1" was success.
*#Marking disk "/dev/sdb1" as an ASM disk: [ OK ]*
Next I create diskgroup DATA using VOL1 and leater create database using diskgroup DATA (VOL1).
Now I install EMC powerpuff and create link /dev/mapper1.
! dev/mapper1 = /dev/sdb1
Now I want to change disk /dev/sdb1 to /dev/mapper1 for VOL1 (in the VOL1 I have a production database)
Thanks for help

Hi,
as far as I have seen, Oracle redesigned a lot of their homepage.
This lead to a lot of problems with the download links (some asmlib libraries could not be downloaded from the homepage).
I assume that the error you are encountering hits into the same issue. Just that you are "updating" and getting a wrong URL instead of using the browser.
I would open a SR with support to get this resolved.
Sebastian

Asmlib error on Linux

Hello -
I installed and configured asmlib on Linux RH 5...
I am getting the following error when running the oracleasm command "createdisk":
Default user to own the driver interface [oracle]:
Default group to own the driver interface [dba]:
Start Oracle ASM library driver on boot (y/n) [y]:
Fix permissions of Oracle ASM disks on boot (y/n) [y]:
Writing Oracle ASM library driver configuration: [ OK ]
Scanning system for ASM disks: [FAILED]
[root@magdbd01a init.d]# ./oracleasm createdisk /dev/sdf
Action "createdisk" requires two arguments
[root@magdbd01a init.d]# ./oracleasm createdisk ASM_VOL1 /dev/sdf
Marking disk "/dev/sdf" as an ASM disk: ./oracleasm: line 541: /usr/sbin/asmtool: cannot execute binary file
[FAILED]
Any assistance is greatly appreciated!
Thanks,
Mike

Hello -
Here is the additional information:
Linux magdbd01a 2.6.18-92.1.10.el5 #1 SMP Wed Jul 23 03:56:11 EDT 2008 x86_64 x86_64 x86_64 GNU/Linux
[root@magdbd01a init.d]# rpm -qa| grep asm
oracleasm-2.6.18-92.1.10.el5-2.0.4-1.el5
oracleasm-support-2.0.4-1.el5
hpasm-8.0.0-173.rhel5
oracleasmlib-2.0.3-1.el5
[root@magdbd01a init.d]# /sbin/lsmod
Module Size Used by
mptctl 63817 1
mptbase 111461 1 mptctl
ipmi_si 75680 3
ipmi_devintf 44432 6
ipmi_msghandler 72052 2 ipmi_si,ipmi_devintf
hp_ilo 69756 5
oracleasm 81576 1
autofs4 57289 2
hidp 83521 2
rfcomm 104809 0
l2cap 89281 10 hidp,rfcomm
bluetooth 118597 5 hidp,rfcomm,l2cap
sunrpc 198025 1
dm_multipath 52945 0
video 53197 0
sbs 49921 0
backlight 39873 1 video
i2c_ec 38593 1 sbs
i2c_core 56129 1 i2c_ec
button 40545 0
battery 43849 0
asus_acpi 50917 0
acpi_memhotplug 40133 0
ac 38729 0
ipv6 420609 152
xfrm_nalgo 43845 1 ipv6
crypto_api 42177 1 xfrm_nalgo
parport_pc 62313 0
lp 47121 0
parport 73165 2 parport_pc,lp
sg 69993 0
shpchp 70765 0
ide_cd 73697 0
serio_raw 40517 0
pcspkr 36289 0
bnx2 173917 0
e1000e 133889 0
cdrom 68713 1 ide_cd
dm_snapshot 50569 0
dm_zero 35265 0
dm_mirror 60489 0
dm_mod 99481 10 dm_multipath,dm_snapshot,dm_zero,dm_mirror
lpfc 331809 27
scsi_transport_fc 73673 1 lpfc
ata_piix 54981 0
libata 192345 1 ata_piix
cciss 98121 3
sd_mod 56257 5
scsi_mod 188665 8 mptctl,sg,lpfc,scsi_transport_fc,libata,cciss,sd_mod
ext3 167249 2
jbd 93873 1 ext3
uhci_hcd 57433 0
ohci_hcd 54493 0
ehci_hcd 65741 0
I will find out from my admin if powerpath is installed.
Thanks,
Mike

Registering disks with oracleasm

Hello,
I am new to ASM and am having trouble getting the oracleasm to recognize my disks. I had the SA set up and present the logical volumnes as follows:
[root@remarkable db_1]# cat /proc/partitions
major minor #blocks name
3 0 209715200 hda
3 1 104391 hda1
3 2 209608087 hda2
253 0 115474432 dm-0
253 1 10223616 dm-1
253 2 26214400 dm-2 <==
253 3 26214400 dm-3 <==
253 4 31457280 dm-4 <==
[root@remarkable ~]# df -h
Filesystem Size Used Avail Use% Mounted on
/dev/mapper/VolGroup00-LogVol00
107G 99G 3.6G 97% /
/dev/hda1 99M 28M 67M 29% /boot
tmpfs 4.0G 0 4.0G 0% /dev/shm
/dev/mapper/VolGroup00-LogVol001
25G 4.2G 20G 18% /disk1 <==
/dev/mapper/VolGroup00-LogVol002
25G 7.1G 17G 31% /disk2 <==
/dev/mapper/VolGroup00-LogVol003
30G 280M 28G 1% /disk3 <==
But when I try to create the disks with oracleasm I get the following:
[root@remarkable ~]# oracleasm createdisk VOL1 /dev/mapper/VolGroup00-LogVol001
Unable to open device "/dev/mapper/VolGroup00-LogVol001": Device or resource busy
[root@remarkable ~]#
[root@remarkable ~]# oracleasm createdisk VOL2 /dev/mapper/VolGroup00-LogVol002
Unable to open device "/dev/mapper/VolGroup00-LogVol002": Device or resource busy
[root@remarkable ~]#
[root@remarkable ~]# oracleasm createdisk VOL3 /dev/mapper/VolGroup00-LogVol003
Unable to open device "/dev/mapper/VolGroup00-LogVol003": Device or resource busy
[root@remarkable ~]#
[root@remarkable ~]# oracleasm createdisk VOL1 /disk1
File "/disk1" is not a block device
[root@remarkable ~]#
[root@remarkable ~]# oracleasm createdisk VOL2 /disk2
File "/disk2" is not a block device
[root@remarkable ~]#
[root@remarkable ~]# oracleasm createdisk VOL3 /disk3
File "/disk3" is not a block device
Any input would be appreciated!

Thank you. That is helpful. I can see my disks in ASMCMD.
-bash-3.2$ asmcmd
ASMCMD> ls
DATA/
ASMCMD> cd DATA
ASMCMD> ls
ASM/
GC11G/
RMAN11G/
ASMCMD> cd GC11g
ASMCMD> ls
ARCHIVELOG/
CONTROLFILE/
DATAFILE/
ONLINELOG/
PARAMETERFILE/
TEMPFILE/
control01.ctl
control02.ctl
redo01.log
redo02.log
redo03.log
spfilegc11g.ora
sysaux01.dbf
system01.dbf
temp01.dbf
undotbs01.dbf
users01.dbf
ASMCMD> ls -l
Type Redund Striped Time Sys Name
Y ARCHIVELOG/
Y CONTROLFILE/
Y DATAFILE/
Y ONLINELOG/
Y PARAMETERFILE/
Y TEMPFILE/
N control01.ctl => +DATA/GC11G/CONTROLFILE/Current.275.758369899
N control02.ctl => +DATA/GC11G/CONTROLFILE/Current.276.758369899
N redo01.log => +DATA/GC11G/ONLINELOG/group_1.277.758369913
N redo02.log => +DATA/GC11G/ONLINELOG/group_2.278.758369915
N redo03.log => +DATA/GC11G/ONLINELOG/group_3.279.758369919
N spfilegc11g.ora => +DATA/GC11G/PARAMETERFILE/spfile.281.758369999
N sysaux01.dbf => +DATA/GC11G/DATAFILE/SYSAUX.272.758369813
N system01.dbf => +DATA/GC11G/DATAFILE/SYSTEM.271.758369813
N temp01.dbf => +DATA/GC11G/TEMPFILE/TEMP.280.758369927
N undotbs01.dbf => +DATA/GC11G/DATAFILE/UNDOTBS1.273.758369813
N users01.dbf => +DATA/GC11G/DATAFILE/USERS.274.758369813
I have shutdown my gc11g database and am trying to restart it but am getting the following error message:
SQL> startup nomount
ORA-01078: failure in processing system parameters
ORA-01565: error in identifying file '+DATA/gc11g/spfilegc11g.ora'
ORA-17503: ksfdopn:2 Failed to open file +DATA/gc11g/spfilegc11g.ora
ORA-27140: attach to post/wait facility failed
ORA-27300: OS system dependent operation:invalid_egid failed with status: 1
ORA-27301: OS failure message: Operation not permitted
ORA-27302: failure occurred at: skgpwinit6
ORA-27303: additional information: startup egid = 500 (oracle), current egid = 503 (dba)
It seems the system cannot see the ASM datafiles? I did a search on the error messages. I do not think this is a memory or semaphore issue. I think the system cannot see the ASM files but am not sure why. I think it might be a tnsnames.ora or listener.ora error. If I login as the Oracle user and set the ORACLE_SID to gc11g I can connect to the gc11g database (or I could when it was up) but I cannot do an external connect to or tnsping the +ASM instance.
-bash-3.2$ echo $ORACLE_SID
gc11g
-bash-3.2$ tnsping +ASM
TNS Ping Utility for Linux: Version 11.2.0.1.0 - Production on 08-AUG-2011 13:06:11
Copyright (c) 1997, 2009, Oracle. All rights reserved.
Used parameter files:
/oracle/oracle/product/11.2.0/db_1/network/admin/sqlnet.ora
TNS-03505: Failed to resolve name
-bash-3.2$
-bash-3.2$ sqlplus system/dbas4ever@+ASM
SQL*Plus: Release 11.2.0.1.0 Production on Mon Aug 8 13:06:25 2011
Copyright (c) 1982, 2009, Oracle. All rights reserved.
ERROR:
ORA-12154: TNS:could not resolve the connect identifier specified

Createdisk Fails

[root@rac1 etc]# /sbin/sfdisk -s
/dev/sda: 20971520
/dev/sdb: 524288
/dev/sdc: 3145728
/dev/sdd: 3145728
/dev/sde: 2097152
[root@rac1 etc]#
[root@rac1 etc]# /etc/init.d/oracleasm createdisk VOL1 /dev/sdc1
Marking disk "/dev/sdc1" as an ASM disk: Error opening manager: No such device or address
[FAILED]
[root@rac1 etc]#

user551201 wrote:
[root@rac1 etc]# /sbin/sfdisk -s
/dev/sda: 20971520
/dev/sdb: 524288
/dev/sdc: 3145728
/dev/sdd: 3145728
/dev/sde: 2097152i dont see /dev/sdc1 here which you tryied to configure below.
[root@rac1 etc]#
[root@rac1 etc]# oracleasm createdisk
Marking disk "/dev/sdc1" as an ASM disk: Error opening manager: No such device or addressit seems that you are specifying partition that dont exists.
[FAILED]
[root@rac1 etc]#

11gR2 RAC installation : /usr/sbin/oracleasm: No such file or directory

Hi,
While creating the ASM disks, getting the following error
[root@rac1 ~]# /usr/sbin/oracleasm createdisk DISK1 /dev/sdb1
-bash: /usr/sbin/oracleasm: No such file or directory
[root@rac1 sbin]# ls -ltr oracleasm*
-rwxr-xr-x 1 root root 7496 Mar 19 2009 oracleasm-discover
But I see oracleasm is available under /etc/init.d, and I have created ASM disks with that, Is it okay ???
[root@rac1 ~]# /etc/init.d/oracleasm createdisk DISK1 /dev/sdb1
Marking disk "/dev/sdb1" as an ASM disk: [ OK ]
[root@rac1 ~]# /etc/init.d/oracleasm listdisks
DISK1
FYI...
[root@rac1 ~]# rpm -qa|grep -i asm
oracleasm-support-2.0.4-1.el5
oracleasmlib-2.0.4-1.el5
oracleasm-2.6.18-92.el5-2.0.4-1.el5
oracleasm-2.6.18-92.0.0.0.1.el5-2.0.4-1.el5
[root@rac1 ~]# uname -a
Linux rac1.appsdba.info 2.6.18-92.el5 #1 SMP Fri May 23 23:40:43 EDT 2008 x86_64 x86_64 x86_64 GNU/Linux
Thanks.
-Joy.
Edited by: user11952526 on Aug 9, 2012 2:25 PM

But I see oracleasm is available under /etc/init.d, and I have created ASM disks with that, Is it okay ???Yes

Oracleasm-support-2.1.5-1.el6.x86_64 doesnt work on OL 6.0 UEK

ASMlib keeps return "Instantiating disk: failed" while trying to create ASM disks. It happens on both Clariion and Symmetrix devices.
[root@sgelxha198 ~]# uname -a
Linux sgelxha198 2.6.32-100.28.5.el6.x86_64 #1 SMP Wed Feb 2 18:40:23 EST 2011
x86_64 x86_64 x86_64 GNU/Linux
[root@sgelxha198 ~]# cat /etc/redhat-release
Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server release 6.0 (Santiago)
[root@sgelxha198 ~]# rpm -aq |grep oracleasm
oracleasm-support-2.1.5-1.el6.x86_64
[root@sgelxha198 ~]# syminq |grep mpath
/dev/mapper/mpatha DGC RAID 5 0531 160018CC 5242880
/dev/mapper/mpathb DGC RAID 3 0531 170018CD 5242880
/dev/mapper/mpathc DGC RAID 1 0531 180018CE 5242880
/dev/mapper/mpathd DGC RAID 10 0531 190018CF 5242880
/dev/mapper/mpathe DGC VRAID 0531 1A4CE9B7 104857600
/dev/mapper/mpathf DGC VRAID 0531 1B4CE9B7 104857600
/dev/mapper/mpathah EMC SYMMETRIX 5875 1600050000 N/A
/dev/mapper/mpathai EMC SYMMETRIX 5875 1600E44000 5280000
/dev/mapper/mpathaj EMC SYMMETRIX 5875 1600E45000 5280000
/dev/mapper/mpathak EMC SYMMETRIX 5875 1600E46000 5280000
/dev/mapper/mpathal EMC SYMMETRIX 5875 1600E47000 5280000
/dev/mapper/mpatham EMC SYMMETRIX 5875 1600E48000 5280000
[root@sgelxha198 ~]# ls -l /dev/mapper/*p1
lrwxrwxrwx. 1 root root 8 Feb 9 03:13
/dev/mapper/360060160f6102900507cc7b2c3f5df11p1 -> ../dm-16
lrwxrwxrwx. 1 root root 8 Feb 9 03:30 /dev/mapper/mpathahp1 -> ../dm-18
lrwxrwxrwx. 1 root root 8 Feb 9 03:30 /dev/mapper/mpathaip1 -> ../dm-23
lrwxrwxrwx. 1 root root 8 Feb 9 03:30 /dev/mapper/mpathajp1 -> ../dm-24
lrwxrwxrwx. 1 root root 8 Feb 9 03:30 /dev/mapper/mpathakp1 -> ../dm-25
lrwxrwxrwx. 1 root root 8 Feb 9 03:30 /dev/mapper/mpathalp1 -> ../dm-26
lrwxrwxrwx. 1 root root 8 Feb 9 03:30 /dev/mapper/mpathamp1 -> ../dm-27
lrwxrwxrwx. 1 root root 7 Feb 9 03:30 /dev/mapper/mpathap1 -> ../dm-8
lrwxrwxrwx. 1 root root 7 Feb 9 03:30 /dev/mapper/mpathbp1 -> ../dm-9
lrwxrwxrwx. 1 root root 8 Feb 9 03:30 /dev/mapper/mpathcp1 -> ../dm-10
lrwxrwxrwx. 1 root root 8 Feb 9 03:30 /dev/mapper/mpathdp1 -> ../dm-12
lrwxrwxrwx. 1 root root 8 Feb 9 03:30 /dev/mapper/mpathep1 -> ../dm-11
lrwxrwxrwx. 1 root root 8 Feb 9 03:30 /dev/mapper/mpathfp1 -> ../dm-13
[root@sgelxha198 log]# oracleasm status
Checking if ASM is loaded: yes
Checking if /dev/oracleasm is mounted: yes
[root@sgelxha198 log]#
[root@sgelxha198 ~]# oracleasm createdisk cxdisk /dev/mapper/mpathap1
Writing disk header: done
Instantiating disk: failed
Clearing disk header: done
[root@sgelxha198 ~]# oracleasm createdisk vmaxdisk /dev/mapper/mpathaip1
Writing disk header: done
Instantiating disk: failed
Clearing disk header: done
mpatha (360060160f6102900505745e1c3f5df11) dm-3 DGC,RAID 5
size=5.0G features='0' hwhandler='1 alua' wp=rw
|-+- policy='round-robin 0' prio=50 status=active
| `- 3:0:0:1 sdj 8:144 active ready running
`-+- policy='round-robin 0' prio=10 status=enabled
`- 2:0:0:1 sdb 8:16 active ready running
[root@sgelxha198 ~]# multipath -ll mpathai
mpathai (360000970000192602316533030453434) dm-17 EMC,SYMMETRIX
size=5.0G features='0' hwhandler='0' wp=rw
`-+- policy='round-robin 0' prio=1 status=active
|- 2:0:1:1 sdr 65:16 active ready running
`- 3:0:1:1 sdq 65:0 active ready running

According to http://www.oracle.com/technetwork/topics/linux/asmlib/index-101839.html No ASMLIB driver package needs to be installed when using this kernel. Moreover doing a search on ASM related rpm in ULN, I can only get what's shown here:
[root@sgelxha198 ~]# yum search oracleasm
Loaded plugins: refresh-packagekit, rhnplugin
======================================================== Matched: oracleasm ========================================================
oracleasm-support.x86_64 : The Oracle Automatic Storage Management support programs.
I even uninstalled oracleasm-support-2.1.5-1.el6.x86_64 and reinstalled with earlier version (oracleasmlib-2.0.4-1.el5.x86_64.rpm & oracleasm-support-2.1.3-1.el5.x86_64.rpm), but I still get the same result.
I suspect that the integrated ASMLIB driver doesnt work well.

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