Database Software

Oracle11gR1 RHEL4 AS - 64bit - 2 node RAC

I am having trouble starting the database from the first node. I can start the second node without any problems. When I go to start the first node I get the following error:

[oracle@vtl-rac1 db_1]$ sqlplus "/as sysdba"

SQL*Plus: Release 11.1.0.6.0 - Production on Thu May 1 15:50:50 2008

Copyright (c) 1982, 2007, Oracle. All rights reserved.

Connected to an idle instance.

SQL> startup
ORA-27504: IPC error creating OSD context

HA Resource Target State
----------- ------ -----
ora.VMRACDEV.VMRACDEV1.inst ONLINE OFFLINE
ora.VMRACDEV.VMRACDEV2.inst ONLINE ONLINE on vtl-rac2
ora.VMRACDEV.db ONLINE ONLINE on vtl-rac1
ora.vtl-rac1.ASM1.asm ONLINE ONLINE on vtl-rac1
ora.vtl-rac1.LISTENER_VTL-RAC1.lsnr ONLINE ONLINE on vtl-rac1
ora.vtl-rac1.gsd ONLINE ONLINE on vtl-rac1
ora.vtl-rac1.ons ONLINE ONLINE on vtl-rac1
ora.vtl-rac1.vip ONLINE ONLINE on vtl-rac1
ora.vtl-rac2.ASM2.asm ONLINE ONLINE on vtl-rac2
ora.vtl-rac2.LISTENER_VTL-RAC2.lsnr ONLINE ONLINE on vtl-rac2
ora.vtl-rac2.gsd ONLINE ONLINE on vtl-rac2
ora.vtl-rac2.ons ONLINE ONLINE on vtl-rac2
ora.vtl-rac2.vip ONLINE ONLINE on vtl-rac2

No alerts are being generated in the alert log. And I have looked at this errror in the docs and it says that it is related to OS/cluster interconnect but those are also fine as indicated in the alert log. I saw some metalink notes but they are specific to other OS's.

Any help would be appreciated.

Thank you.