[Oracleasm-users] Disks visible in oracleasm listdisks, but not v$asm_disk

[Joel Becker]

On Wed, Mar 07, 2007 at 09:50:39AM +0200, Jani Patokallio wrote:
> In other words, /etc/init.d/oracleasm and /dev/oracleasm/disks look
> absolutely fine, but the Oracle ASM instance can't find them at all.  Any
> ideas?  Prior to this, I had some unpleasantness attempting to install CRS
> (turns out it doesn't like hostnames with capital letters), so there's a
> distinct possibility there's some mess left over from there -- but I'm a
> little baffled as to why it should matter to ASM.
> 
> Any tips would be much appreciated, otherwise it's back to square one and
> reinstalling the OS from scratch...

	What does /usr/sbin/oracleasm-discover say when run as the
oracle user?  Do you have the x86_64 oracleasmlib installed?  What about
the database, is that 32bit or 64bit?

Joel

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