AW: RAC cluster down ...

 Hi Laura,  

how did you define your database resources (srvctl add...)? Did you try a reboot (no, this is no (at least good) solution...;-))? The 'Cannot read string from
/home/oracle/product/10gR2/racg/init/oracle1/powersv2/.connect' shows that there are maybe some directories that do not exist, but Clusterware expects these.  

Starting more instances at a time is a task to complete when the issues are gone ...;-)
Ok, just kidding. Define resources as if you were using a failover database with clusterware:
http://www.oracle.com/technology/products/database/clusterware/pdf/SI_DB_Fai lover_11g.pdf  

The more I think about that the more I come to suggest a reboot...;-(  

What happens when you stop your database with srvctl? What are target and real state (get your copy of ML-Note 259301.1 to check the state of the clusterware's resources) saying about the db resources.  

hth (a bit...;-)),
Torsten.  

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