oracleasm config question regarding "oracle" user
527623Feb 5 2009 — edited Feb 15 2009All,
Oracle RAC 10.2.0.3.0
Oracle Clusterware 10.2.0.3.0
Red Hat 5.2
I am trying to create a RAC database using ASM as its storage mechanism using dbca. The oracle software installation was done as a user called ora_idps (NOT oracle), therefore the dbca utility is being launched as that user.
When we originally ran the oracleasm config command, it wouldn't let us specify this ora_idps user - it will ONLY accept the value 'oracle'. Can this not be changed or over-ridden? The problem I'm running into is that once the ASM instances are created on both nodes, I keep receiving the following alert log errors indicating the ASM disks cannot be mounted. The commands to create the ASM disks return successful, and the raw devices we're using have the appropriate permissions.
ORA-15186: ASMLIB error function = [asm_open], error = [1], mesg = [Operation not permitted].
I've tried every workaround that I could find in metalink and by googling. Has anyone seen this and know of a workaround.