Oracle GI 11.2.0.2
Oracle db 11.2.0.1.1
- three databases, 2 on ASM, and one not.
Oracle Linux 5.6
Standalone ASM -- no clusters
Built this system as a sandbox under VirtualBox to begin work on upgrading my live databases to 11.2.0.2. Before proceeding I need to relocate my ORACLE_BASE (actually I'll take all of /u01) to a larger newly created file system. I'm looking at the DB Admin Guide, chapter 4, under "Stopping and Restarting Oracle Restart for Maintenance Operations".
First I set ORACLE_HOME for the databases and ran 'srvctl stop home -o $ORACLE_HOME -s $ORACLE_HOME/crs_state'. Ran as expected, no errors and the databases were stopped.
Next I set ORACLE_HOME for ASM and ran the same command 'srvctl stop home -o $ORACLE_HOME -s $ORACLE_HOME/crs_state', but with problems:
oracle:+ASM$ cd $ORACLE_HOME
oracle:+ASM$ srvctl stop home -o $ORACLE_HOME -s $ORACLE_HOME/crs_state
PRCH-1002 : Failed to stop resources running from CRS home /u01/app/oracle/11.2.0/grid
PRCH-1030 : One or more resources failed to stop: PRCH-1026 : Failed to stop ASM
PRCD-1027 : Failed to retrieve database vbdwdev
PRCD-1035 : Database vbdwdev is not a cluster database
oracle:+ASM$ srvctl start home -o $ORACLE_HOME -s $ORACLE_HOME/crs_state
oracle:+ASM$
Hmm. Database vbdwdev is not a cluster database. No it isn't. What's the issue there? And what is it trying to do with the database anyway? That was supposed to be dealt with when running 'srvctl stop' from the
database, which was already done.
Google and MetaLink searches on the error messages keep coming back to cluster related issues, often
during upgrades, and this situation is neither.
Ideas?