Re: After applying PSU to clustered 11g home DB on node 2 cannot start.

Is there a problem with the mount point itself? Has it gone to read only? You might try the microsoft solution and bounce node 2, sometimes that clears out any issues.

On Thu, Apr 27, 2017 at 9:06 AM, De DBA <dedba_at_tpg.com.au> wrote:

> Hi,
>
> I'm applying a PSU to a clustered home for the 1st time in my life and of
> course hit a snag.. This is 11.2.0.4 database on a 2-node ASM (12.1.0.2 )
> cluster on an ODA and I am applying the 11.2.0.4 October 2016 PSU. All
> databases are single-node, just ASM is clustered. I am patching only the
> database homes, not ASM.
>
> I ran opatch on node 1 and it propagated automatically to node 2. Before
> the patch, both nodes had databases running without errors.
>
> Opatch reported no errors on either node.
>
> After the patch, I can restart the databases on node 1 without problems
> and run the post-install actions, but on node 2 start attempts end in
> ORA-205 "Error identifying control file". In the alert log are masses of
> errors like this:
>
> …
>
> Thu Apr 27 23:42:51 2017
>
> ALTER DATABASE MOUNT
>
> NOTE: Loaded library: System
>
> ORA-15025: could not open disk "/dev/mapper/HDD_E0_S00_372178872p1"
>
> ORA-27041: unable to open file
>
> Linux-x86_64 Error: 13: Permission denied
>
> Additional information: 9
>
> …
>
>
> I checked the permissions/ownership of the oracle executable, but that is
> the same on both nodes. The file permissions on the disk devices are also
> the same and ASM has never gone down during or after patching. I'm
> stumped...
>
> Cheers,
> Tony
>
>

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