"ORA-00210: cannot open the specified control file" when starting Oracle from GFS2 file system on Red Hat High Availibility Cluster
Issue
- Having problems starting some of the databases mounted on the GFS2 file system due to the control files being in-use:
Thu Jun 14 11:51:39 EST 2012
starting up 1 shared server(s) ...
Thu Jun 14 11:51:39 CST 2012
ALTER DATABASE MOUNT
Thu Jun 14 11:51:39 CST 2012
ORA-00210: cannot open the specified control file
ORA-00202: control file: '/u03/oradata/TIMSACPT/control03.ctl'
ORA-27086: unable to lock file - already in use
Linux-x86_64 Error: 11: Resource temporarily unavailable
Additional information: 8
Additional information: 15425
Thu Jun 14 11:51:42 CST 2012
ORA-205 signalled during: ALTER DATABASE MOUNT...
Environment
- Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server 5 (with the High Availability and Resilient Storage Add Ons)
- 2 or more nodes in Red Hat High Availability Cluster
- Oracle Database managed by Red Hat High Availability cluster
- Observed on orainstance.sh resource script, but it is currently unknown if oracledb.sh resource script is also affected.
- The Oracle database control file is located on a GFS2 filesystem.
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