Wednesday, August 26, 2009

ORA-29702: error occurred in Cluster Group Service operation

# problem

SQL> startup nomount;
ORA-29702: error occurred in Cluster Group Service operation

29702, 00000, "error occurred in Cluster Group Service operation"
// *Cause: An unexpected error occurred while performing a CGS operation.
// *Action: Verify that the LMON process is still active. Also,
// check the Oracle LMON trace files for errors.


# cause - cloned a RAC ORACLE_HOME to a server with no CRS

# solution

cd $ORACLE_HOME/rdbms/lib
make -f ins_rdbms.mk rac_off
make -f ins_rdbms.mk ioracle

1 comment:

Richard said...

Brilliant Robert - you are a star. This issue had been bugging me for ages. We are cloning VM guests, but got this CGS error when the hostname was changed. These commands must get run during the home installation.