Re: dbca hangs - Oracle 10gR2 RAC, Solaris 10, NetApp NFS

Yonah Russ <yonah.russ_at_gmail.com> wrote:

> Hi,
>
> We have RAC installed on 2 T2000 machines.
> Solaris 10, patched
> IPMP for failover on all interfaces
> NetApp NFS for datafile,voting disk, etc.
> Oracle installation, binaries, etc. are on local disks.
> All configurations were according to Oracle/NetApp docs.
> There were no issues during installation.
>
> When we try to create the db using dbca, the process hangs during data
> dictionary creation.
> There is only one error message "Warning: aiowait timed out x times"
> All the NFS partitions are mounted forcedirectio, and we have tried
> with aio disabled in oracle.
> We have also tried without forcedirectio, with nointr instead of intr.
> If we create a db on the local disks there is no issue.
> There are no problems using the NFS shares in general.
>
> Any ideas?
> Thanks
> Yonah
>
>

Remove Solaris patch 127111-XX, then it will work. I openened a SR with Oracle on this and they created Note 471117.1 (will be published after review)

Van Received on Tue Dec 18 2007 - 08:23:08 CST