OrainstRoot.sh: Failure to promote local gpnp setup to other cluster nodes

Question

I'm trying to build a 2 node cluster and everything appeared to be going swimmingly until the end of the 1st nodes running of the orainstRoot.sh script.
The following is the end of the output:
Disk Group OCR_VOTE created successfully.
clscfg: -install mode specified
Successfully accumulated necessary OCR keys.
Creating OCR keys for user 'root', privgrp 'root'..
Operation successful.
CRS-4256: Updating the profile
Successful addition of voting disk 4e3f692529584f8bbf7f16146bd90346.
Successful addition of voting disk 728bed918cf54f6cbf904d37638c674b.
Successful addition of voting disk 8ac20793405d4fdcbfcafc7e311f877d.
Successfully replaced voting disk group with +OCR_VOTE.
CRS-4256: Updating the profile
CRS-4266: Voting file(s) successfully replaced
## STATE File Universal Id File Name Disk group
1. ONLINE 4e3f692529584f8bbf7f16146bd90346 (ORCL:VOTE01) [OCR_VOTE]
2. ONLINE 728bed918cf54f6cbf904d37638c674b (ORCL:VOTE02) [OCR_VOTE]
3. ONLINE 8ac20793405d4fdcbfcafc7e311f877d (ORCL:VOTE03) [OCR_VOTE]
Located 3 voting disk(s).
Failed to rmtcopy "/tmp/fileLgKPGV" to "/u01/app/11.2.0/grid/gpnp/manifest.txt" for nodes {ilprevzedb01,ilprevzedb02}, rc=256
Failed to rmtcopy "/u01/app/11.2.0/grid/gpnp/ilprevzedb01/profiles/peer/profile.xml" to "/u01/app/11.2.0/grid/gpnp/profiles/peer/profile.xml" for nodes {ilprevzedb01,ilprevzedb02}, rc=256
rmtcopy aborted
Failed to promote local gpnp setup to other cluster nodes at /u01/app/11.2.0/grid/crs/install/crsconfig_lib.pm line 6504.
/u01/app/11.2.0/grid/perl/bin/perl -I/u01/app/11.2.0/grid/perl/lib -I/u01/app/11.2.0/grid/crs/install /u01/app/11.2.0/grid/crs/install/rootcrs.pl execution failed
Has anyone run into this problem and found a solution?
Thanks in advance!

Answer 1

Ok, for everyone out there, I resolved the issue. Hopefully this will help others encountering the same problem.
It turns out that when the OS was installed, iptables firewall was enabled. This will cause havoc with the installer scripts.
My first inkling should have been when the installer stalled at 65% trying to copy home directories between nodes, the first time I ran through the installer.
At that time, Googling around found that iptables might be the problem and indeed it was running, so I just did a 'service iptables stop' WITHOUT REBOOTING THE NODES and re-ran the installer.
Well, it looks as though NOT REBOOTING THE NODES doesn't quite cut it. I then did a 'chkconfig iptables off' and REBOOTED BOTH NODES.
Oracle support simply provided me with: How to Proceed from Failed 11gR2 Grid Infrastructure (CRS) Installation (Doc ID 942166.1), which didn't really work all that well, lots of failures, errors, etc. So I just deleted the 11.2.0 directory and tried running the installer again.
This time the install went through without problems.
Thanks!