RAC - lsnrctl 12541 "error"

Question

Hello, I'm having a strange problem with the listeners in a 2 node (eosgospdba01 and eosgospdba02) configuration.
ps -ef | grep LIST on eosgospdba01 returns:
oracle 29420 1 0 Sep23 ? 00:00:00 /opt/oracle/product/10.2.0/db/bin/tnslsnr LISTENER_EOSGOSPDBA01 -inherit
ps -ef | grep LIST on eosgospdba02 returns:
oracle 615 1 0 Sep23 ? 00:00:00 /opt/oracle/product/10.2.0/db/bin/tnslsnr LISTENER_EOSGOSPDBA02 -inherit
lsnrctl status on eosgospdba01 returns:
Connecting to (ADDRESS=(PROTOCOL=tcp)(HOST=)(PORT=1521))
STATUS of the LISTENER
Alias LISTENER_EOSGOSPDBA01
lsnrctl status on eosgospdba02 returns:
Connecting to (ADDRESS=(PROTOCOL=tcp)(HOST=)(PORT=1521))
TNS-12541: TNS:no listener
TNS-12560: TNS:protocol adapter error
TNS-00511: No listener
lsnrctl status LISTENER_EOSGOSPDBA01 on eosgospdba01 returns:
Connecting to (DESCRIPTION=(ADDRESS=(PROTOCOL=TCP)(HOST=pdba01-vip)(PORT=1521)(IP=FIRST)))
STATUS of the LISTENER
Alias LISTENER_EOSGOSPDBA01
lsnrctl status LISTENER_EOSGOSPDBA02 on eosgospdba02 returns:
Connecting to (DESCRIPTION=(ADDRESS=(PROTOCOL=TCP)(HOST=pdba02-vip)(PORT=1521)(IP=FIRST)))
STATUS of the LISTENER
Alias LISTENER_EOSGOSPDBA02
listener.ora on esogospdba01 contains:
SID_LIST_LISTENER_EOSGOSPDBA01 =
(SID_LIST =
(SID_DESC =
(SID_NAME = PLSExtProc)
(ORACLE_HOME = /opt/oracle/product/10.2.0/db)
(PROGRAM = extproc)
LISTENER_EOSGOSPDBA01 =
(DESCRIPTION_LIST =
(DESCRIPTION =
(ADDRESS = (PROTOCOL = TCP)(HOST = pdba01-vip)(PORT = 1521)(IP = FIRST))
(ADDRESS = (PROTOCOL = TCP)(HOST = 127.0.0.1)(PORT = 1521)(IP = FIRST))
listener.ora on esogospdba01 contains:
SID_LIST_LISTENER_EOSGOSPDBA02 =
(SID_LIST =
(SID_DESC =
(SID_NAME = PLSExtProc)
(ORACLE_HOME = /opt/oracle/product/10.2.0/db)
(PROGRAM = extproc)
LISTENER_EOSGOSPDBA02 =
(DESCRIPTION_LIST =
(DESCRIPTION =
(ADDRESS = (PROTOCOL = TCP)(HOST = pdba02-vip)(PORT = 1521)(IP = FIRST))
(ADDRESS = (PROTOCOL = TCP)(HOST = 127.0.0.1)(PORT = 1521)(IP = FIRST))
I hope that someone can throw some light onto this problem, because I have to stop and start the listener on eosgospdba02 to make dbca work correctly.
Thanks in advance
Henrik
Edited by: user1734453 on 2008-09-25 02:09

Answer 1

These do not look like fully formed .ora files from a 10gR2 RAC cluster to me. Take a look at the demo entries here:
http://www.psoug.org/reference/rac.html
If Oracle is telling you there is no listener then there is no listener that corresponds with the ORACLE_HOME and ORACLE_SID in the environment.
Start there and then enable tracing.
Your sqlnet.ora file should like contain an entry similar to the following until you debug the problem:
TNSPING.TRACE_LEVEL=admin
TNSPING.TRACE_DIRECTORY=<a file system directory path and name>