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Oracleasm Service Fails to Start After Upgrade to oracleasm-support-2.1.11-1 RPM Package

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The Problem

After upgrading oracleasm-support package, unable to start the oracleasm service which was working properly before the upgrade.

Attempts to start the service result in:

# service oracleasm start
oracleasm is not enabled, use 'service oracleasm enable' or 'oracleasm init'

The Solution

This is caused by a regression in oracleasm-support-2.1.11-1 where the oracleasm configuration file /etc/sysconfig/oracleasm is not marked as a configuration file in the RPM spec file and is overwritten by the upgrade.

Workaround #1

If is exists, copy the /etc/sysconfig/oracleasm.rpmsave file to /etc/sysconfig/oracleasm and try again to start the service.

# cp /etc/sysconfig/oracleasm.rpmsave /etc/sysconfig/oracleasm
# service oracleasm start

Workaround #2

Modify the /etc/sysconfig/oracleasm file to have a line which reads:

# vi /etc/sysconfig/oracleasm
ORACLEASM_ENABLED=true

Inspect the file to identify any other changes which might be needed for your environment and try starting the service.

# service oracleasm start

Permanent Solution

In order to permanently solve this issue, update to the current release of the oracleasm-support RPM package.

Filed Under: ASM, oracle

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