Srvctl start listener -n rac1 gives CRS-1028 and CRS-0223

Question

Boot up 2 linux 10.2.0.1.0 RAC nodes.
everything starts except listeners
srvctl start listener -n rac1
or
srvctl start listener -n rac2
gives
CRS-1028
CRS-0223
However, if you start listeners manually, using
lsnrctl start listener_rac1
or
lsnrctl start listener_rac2
they start right up. Moreover, once you have started them manually, the srvctl start listener commands now work, both stopping and starting the listeners with srvctl now works. However, when reboot systems, again srvctl must be "primed" for starting listener by doing one "manual" startup of listener.
Any thoughts on what is causing this behavior?
Thanks!

Answer 1

Alan, thanks - excellent advice. However, I just ended up redoing the entire install and this of course fixed the problem :-)
Thanks for your reply, Gil
PS also, btw I use the crsstat script instead of the crs_stat for better formatting, i.e. this script (which I named crsstat) lives in $ORA_CRS_HOME/bin. Also, note I am not the author of this script, I downloaded it from Metalink:
#!/usr/bin/ksh
# Sample 10g CRS resource status query script
# Description:
# - Returns formatted version of crs_stat -t, in tabular
# format, with the complete rsc names and filtering keywords
# - The argument, $RSC_KEY, is optional and if passed to the script, will
# limit the output to HA resources whose names match $RSC_KEY.
# Requirements:
# - $ORA_CRS_HOME should be set in your environment
RSC_KEY=$1
QSTAT=-u
AWK=/usr/bin/awk # if not available use /usr/bin/awk
# Table header:echo ""
$AWK \
'BEGIN {printf "%-45s %-10s %-18s\n", "HA Resource", "Target", "State";
          printf "%-45s %-10s %-18s\n", "-----------", "------", "-----";}'
# Table body:
$ORA_CRS_HOME/bin/crs_stat $QSTAT | $AWK \
'BEGIN { FS="="; state = 0; }
$1~/NAME/ && $2~/'$RSC_KEY'/ {appname = $2; state=1};
state == 0 {next;}
$1~/TARGET/ && state == 1 {apptarget = $2; state=2;}
$1~/STATE/ && state == 2 {appstate = $2; state=3;}
state == 3 {printf "%-45s %-10s %-18s\n", appname, apptarget, appstate; state=0;}'