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Reason for the lock failure: Because of the sudden ungraceful shutdown of the database, file locks on data files were not released by the NFS server (ZFS SA in this case). NFS server held on to the file locks even after the NFS client (DB server node in this example) was restarted. Due to this, Oracle RDBMS is not able to lock those data files residing on NFS server (ZFS SA). As a result, database instance was failed to start up in exclusive mode. Workaround Manually clear the NFS locks Read more...
Steps to disable lmetad service in RedHat 7: · Change value to “use_lvmetad = 0” in /etc/lvm/lvm.conf · Stop services: lvm2-lvmetad.socket and lvm2-lvmetad.service   # systemctl stop lvm2-lvmetad.socket # systemctl stop lvm2-lvmetad.service · Rescan disks # pvscan –cache # vgscan # lvscan · Disable services: lvm2-lvmetad.socket and lvm2-lvmetad.service # systemctl disable lvm2-lvmetad.service Removed symlink /etc/systemd/system/sysinit.target.wants/lvm2-lvmetad.service. # Read more...
you can restart the DELL iDRAC over ssh when you cannot connect over the html web management page with racadm racreset soft To do so, connect over SSH to the iDRAC and run the racreset # ssh hostname-idrac -l root root@hostname-idrac's password: /admin1-> racadm racreset soft RAC reset operation initiated successfully. It may take a few minutes for the RAC to come online again. /admin1-> Connection to hostname-idrac closed by remote host. Connection to hostname-idrac closed. Now Read more...
Corrupt services repository (SMF) =============================================================================== Symptoms --------------------------------------- Comands 'svcs -a', 'svcs -x' or 'pkg' show errors like these: - UnknownSysrepoConfiguration - repository server unavailable Examples: root@host:/root# svcs -a svcs: Could not bind to repository server: repository server unavailable.  Exiting. root@host:/root# pkg publisher Traceback (most recent call last):   File "/usr/bin/pkg", Read more...