Monthly Archives: April 2011

Removing NFS Locks on Opensolaris / Nexenta (or handling ORA-27086: unable to lock file – already in use when using Oracle over NFS)

Facts Oracle running on Linux / Solaris Oracle data files and control file are stored on NFS NFS server used Opensolaris or Nexenta Symptom ORA-00205: error in identifying controlfile, check alert log for more info ORA-00210: cannot open the specified  … Continue reading

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ORA-27154: post/wait create failed / ORA-27301: OS failure message: No space left on device when starting ASM or database instance

Today i came accross a very strange error. After rebooting one cluster node (which ran flawlessly before!) ASM instance came up fine but database instance failed with: ORA-27154: post/wait create failed ORA-27300: OS system dependent operation:semget failed with status: 28 … Continue reading

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