ORA-15260: permission denied on ASM disk group

PROBLEM

Try to set ASM diskgroup attribute, then get the following errors:

$ sqlplus / as sysdba
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SQL> alter diskgroup OCR_VOTE SET ATTRIBUTE 'compatible.asm' ='11.2.0.2';
alter diskgroup OCR_VOTE SET ATTRIBUTE 'compatible.asm' ='11.2.0.2'
*
ERROR at line 1:
ORA-15032: not all alterations performed
ORA-15260: permission denied on ASM disk group

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CRS-4995: The command ‘Delete resource’ is invalid in crsctl

SITUATION

Trying to delete the database resource “ora.RACTEST.db” by using CRSCTL, because ORACLE_HOME has been uninstalled, but the following error occurs.

$crsctl delete resource ora.RACTEST.db
CRS-4995: The command 'Delete resource' is invalid in crsctl. Use srvctl for this command.

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High Swap Usage On Oracle Database Server

SITUATION

When investigating into client’s Oracle database performance issue, we found the swap space usage is constantly very high on this Linux server.

OS: RHEL 7.3
DB: Oracle 12.2.0.1

FINDINGS

1)top
Tasks: 352 total, 2 running, 350 sleeping, 0 stopped, 0 zombie
Cpu(s): 13.4%us, 4.1%sy, 0.0%ni, 79.3%id, 2.2%wa, 0.3%hi, 0.8%si, 0.0%st
Mem: 32172820k total, 32015956k used, 156864k free, 14528k buffers
Swap: 16777208k total, 7435428k used, 9341780k free, 11129844k cached

PID USER PR NI VIRT RES SHR S %CPU %MEM TIME+ COMMAND
137049 oracle 15 0 16.2g 5.3g 5.3g S 20.6 17.4 10:14.17 oracle
 72457 oracle 15 0 16.2g 4.7g 4.7g S 15.3 15.3 10:50.15 oracle
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2) pmap
$ pmap -x 137049
137049: oracleRACTEST1 (LOCAL=NO)
Address          Kbytes   RSS     Dirty Mode Mapping
0000000000400000 96356    11704   0     r-x-- oracle
0000000006419000 444      140     4     rwx-- oracle
0000000006488000 148      100     80    rwx-- [ anon ]
000000001966e000 532      176     92    rwx-- [ anon ]
0000000060000000 16779264 5444888 1485768 rwxs- [ shmid=0x670005 ]
00000032b6a00000 112      108     0     r-x-- ld-2.5.so
00000032b6c1c000 4        0       0     r-x-- ld-2.5.so
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00007fff4c504000 160 136 132 rwx-- [ stack ]
00007fff4c5d2000 12 4 0 r-x-- [ anon ]
ffffffffff600000 8192 0 0 ----- [ anon ]
---------------- ------ ------ ------
total kB 16954204 5477952 1490448
3) swappiness
$ cat /proc/sys/vm/swappiness
10

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ohasd failed to start

SITUATION

1) Two 11.2.0.4 RAC nodes( racnode1/2). Deleted node racnode2 . Upgraded OS from RHEL 4  to RHEL 7 for racnode2, then tried to add node racnode2 back into cluster .

2) export IGNORE_PREADDNODE_CHECKS=Y, Ran addnode.sh ->  orainstRoot.sh->root.sh, then got “ohasd failed to start” error.

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ohasd failed to start
Failed to start the Clusterware. Last 20 lines of the alert log follow:
2017-07-24 16:11:23.098:
[client(11401)]CRS-2101:The OLR was formatted using version 3.
2017-07-24 16:11:24.001:
[client(11424)]CRS-1001:The OCR was formatted using version 3.

ohasd failed to start at /u01/app/11.2.0.4/grid/crs/install/roothas.pl line 377, line 4.

SOLUTION

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Copy Oracle Home Binary from One RAC Node to Another RAC Node

For some reason RAC oracle home binary corrected on racnode2, so it needs to be copied and reconfigured from racnode1.

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