ASMCA fails with ORA-01034 during 10.2.0.4 RAC upgrade to 11.2.0.2
824986Feb 6 2011 — edited May 30 2011I must admit that this is my first RAC upgrade to a major release. I have a two node 10.2.04 RAC database using raw devices for asm disks as well as for ocr and voting disk. (I plan to move the ocr and vote disk into ASM after upgrade). During the upgrade, I first encountered bug 9974223 (multicast issue) and applied that patch before running the rootupgrade.sh. Installation failed during asm upgrade and the only error I could find was this excerpt from the cfgtoollogs dir:
INFO: Executing ASMCA
INFO: Command /home/oragrid/11.2.0/grid/bin/asmca -silent -upgradeASM -oui_internal
INFO: ... GenericInternalPlugIn.handleProcess() entered.
INFO: ... GenericInternalPlugIn: getting configAssistantParmas.
INFO: ... GenericInternalPlugIn: checking secretArguments.
INFO: ... GenericInternalPlugIn: starting read loop.
INFO: Read: ASMSNMP_PASSWORD_PROMPT
INFO: Processing: ASMSNMP_PASSWORD_PROMPT for argument tag -asmMonitorPassword
INFO: End of argument passing to stdin
INFO: Read:
INFO: Read: ORA-01034: ORACLE not available
INFO: Read:
INFO: Read:
INFO: oracle.assistants.asm:The plug-in Automatic Storage Management Configuration Assistant has failed its perform method
However, the asm instance is up and running (old 10g version) on both nodes. Any ideas or help is appreciated. I'm sure that there is some log file that I am not seeing that might provide more details, but I can't seem to find it.