[Oracleasm-users] Cannot create diskgroup

[alan.baldo at bull.com.br]

HI!
I NEED HELP! I DON'T KNOW WHAT TO DO ANYMORE... I CAN'T CREATE A DISKGROUP
WITH ASMLIB IN A RHEL3 UPDATED. THIS IS THE INFO I HAVE:

[oracle at spoang002lx oracle]$ uname -r
2.4.21-15.ELsmp
[oracle at spoang002lx oracle]$ rpm -qa | grep oracleasm
oracleasm-support-1.0.2-1
oracleasmlib-1.0.0-1
oracleasm-2.4.21-EL-smp-1.0.0-1

[oracle at spoang002lx dbs]$ cat init+ASM.ora
background_dump_dest='/u01/app/oracle/admin/+ASM/bdump'
core_dump_dest='/u01/app/oracle/admin/+ASM/cdump'
instance_type='asm'
large_pool_size=12M
user_dump_dest='/u01/app/oracle/admin/+ASM/udump'
asm_diskstring='ORCL:*'


[root at spoang002lx root]# /etc/init.d/oracleasm createdisk asmdisk01
/dev/sda4
Marking disk "/dev/sda4" as an ASM disk                    [  OK  ]
[root at spoang002lx root]# /etc/init.d/oracleasm listdisks
ASMDISK01
[root at spoang002lx root]# logout

[oracle at spoang002lx oracle]$ sqlplus '/ as sysdba'
SQL*Plus: Release 10.1.0.2.0 - Production on Wed Jul 28 17:32:39 2004
Copyright (c) 1982, 2004, Oracle.  All rights reserved.
Connected to:
Oracle Database 10g Enterprise Edition Release 10.1.0.2.0 - Production
With the Partitioning, OLAP and Data Mining options
SQL> create diskgroup grp01 external redundancy disk 'ASMDISK01';
create diskgroup grp01 external redundancy disk 'ASMDISK01'
*
ERROR at line 1:
ORA-15018: diskgroup cannot be created
ORA-15031: disk specification 'ASMDISK01' matches no disks
SQL> l
  1* create diskgroup grp01 external redundancy disk 'ASMDISK01'
SQL> c/ASMDISK01/asmdisk01
  1* create diskgroup grp01 external redundancy disk 'asmdisk01'
SQL> /
create diskgroup grp01 external redundancy disk 'asmdisk01'
*
ERROR at line 1:
ORA-15018: diskgroup cannot be created
ORA-15031: disk specification 'asmdisk01' matches no disks


SQL>



[oracle at spoang002lx bdump]$ cat alert_+ASM.log
...
Wed Jul 28 14:26:25 2004
Starting ORACLE instance (normal)
LICENSE_MAX_SESSION = 0
LICENSE_SESSIONS_WARNING = 0
Picked latch-free SCN scheme 2
KCCDEBUG_LEVEL = 0
Using LOG_ARCHIVE_DEST_1 parameter default value as
/u01/app/oracle/product/10g/dbs/arch
Autotune of undo retention is turned off.
LICENSE_MAX_USERS = 0
SYS auditing is disabled[oracle at spoang002lx bdump]$ cat alert_+ASM.log

Starting up ORACLE RDBMS Version: 10.1.0.2.0.
System parameters with non-default values:
  large_pool_size          = 12582912
  instance_type            = asm
  remote_login_passwordfile= SHARED
  background_dump_dest     = /u01/app/oracle/admin/+ASM/bdump
  user_dump_dest           = /u01/app/oracle/admin/+ASM/udump
  core_dump_dest           = /u01/app/oracle/admin/+ASM/cdump
  asm_diskstring           =
PMON started with pid=2, OS id=5325
MMAN started with pid=3, OS id=5327
DBW0 started with pid=4, OS id=5329
LGWR started with pid=5, OS id=5331
CKPT started with pid=6, OS id=5333
SMON started with pid=7, OS id=5335
RBAL started with pid=8, OS id=5337
Wed Jul 28 14:27:26 2004
SQL> create diskgroup ORADG01 external redundancy disk 'ASMDISK01'
Wed Jul 28 14:27:26 2004
Loaded ASM Library - Generic Linux, version 1.0.0 library for asmlib
interface
Wed Jul 28 14:27:26 2004
ERROR: diskgroup ORADG01 was not created
Wed Jul 28 14:28:35 2004
SQL> create diskgroup ORADG01 external redundancy disk 'ORCL:ASMDISK01'
Wed Jul 28 14:28:35 2004
ERROR: diskgroup ORADG01 was not created
Wed Jul 28 17:33:48 2004
SQL> create diskgroup grp01 external redundancy disk 'ASMDISK01'
Wed Jul 28 17:33:48 2004
ERROR: diskgroup GRP01 was not created
Wed Jul 28 17:34:00 2004
SQL> create diskgroup grp01 external redundancy disk 'asmdisk01'
Wed Jul 28 17:34:00 2004
ERROR: diskgroup GRP01 was not created


WHAT DO I HAVE TO DO?
THANKS.