{"id":2135,"date":"2016-04-29T17:52:41","date_gmt":"2016-04-29T20:52:41","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.dbarj.com.br\/en\/?p=2135"},"modified":"2016-04-29T17:58:29","modified_gmt":"2016-04-29T20:58:29","slug":"ora-15040-diskgroup-incomplete-diskgroup-mounted","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.dbarj.com.br\/en\/2016\/04\/ora-15040-diskgroup-incomplete-diskgroup-mounted\/","title":{"rendered":"&#8220;ORA-15040: diskgroup is incomplete&#8221; but diskgroup is mounted"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Those days, I was creating a new database on a system and when I tried to create any file (spfile \/ pwfile \/ control file) on diskgroup, I started receiving the error below:<\/p>\n<pre class=\"EnlighterJSRAW\" data-enlighter-language=\"generic\">ORA-15001: diskgroup \"DATA\" does not exist or is not mounted\r\nORA-15040: diskgroup is incomplete<\/pre>\n<p>Usually this error comes together with something like <strong><em>ORA-15042: ASM disk &#8220;1&#8221; is missing from group number &#8220;1&#8221;<\/em><\/strong>, but in my case, there was <span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">no disk error.<\/span>\u00a0Also, the more strange thing is that\u00a0all the diskgroups were mounted\u00a0on all\u00a0instances.<\/p>\n<p>After researching, I discovered that this error is caused because <strong>oracle<\/strong> user does no have the <strong>necessary privilegies<\/strong> to handle the ASM disks.<\/p>\n<p>So, checking the privileges:<\/p>\n<pre class=\"EnlighterJSRAW\" data-enlighter-language=\"shell\"># ls -la \/dev\/oracleasm\/disks\r\ntotal 0\r\ndrwxr-xr-x 1 root root           0 Mar 19  2015 .\r\ndrwxr-xr-x 4 root root           0 Mar 19  2015 ..\r\nbrw-rw---- 1 grid asmadmin 253,  3 Mar 19  2015 ARCHIVE\r\nbrw-rw---- 1 grid asmadmin 253,  2 Mar 19  2015 DATA\r\nbrw-rw---- 1 grid asmadmin 253,  5 Mar 19  2015 REDO01\r\nbrw-rw---- 1 grid asmadmin 253,  8 Mar 19  2015 REDO02\r\n\r\n# id -a oracle\r\nuid=101(oracle) gid=501(oinstall) groups=501(oinstall),502(dba),503(oper),505(asmdba)\r\n\r\n# id -a grid\r\nuid=102(grid) gid=501(oinstall) groups=501(oinstall),502(dba),504(asmadmin),505(asmdba),506(asmoper)\r\n\r\n$ ls -la $ORACLE_HOME\/bin\/oracle\r\n-rwsr-s--x 1 oracle asmadmin 239882703 Apr 15 2015 \/u01\/app\/oracle\/product\/11.2.4\/dbhome_1\/bin\/oracle<\/pre>\n<p>They were exactly as expected.<\/p>\n<p>So, as a try, I added oracle user to <span style=\"color: #000080;\"><strong>asmadmin<\/strong><\/span> group in the OS to check if this could solve my problem:<\/p>\n<pre class=\"EnlighterJSRAW\" data-enlighter-language=\"shell\"># gpasswd -a oracle asmadmin<\/pre>\n<p><strong>After restarting the instance, surprisingly my issue was solved.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Having oracle as an ASM\u00a0admin is not a concern in my administration model as the DBA is also the Grid Administrator.<\/p>\n<p>If you have the same issue, check\u00a0if this solves your problem.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<b>Have you enjoyed? 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