Have you tried rac rather than RAC. Alternatively have a look at the
diags from the working install.

On 7/23/07, Ravi Gaur <ravigaur1@(protected):
> Hi all,
>
> We've a 2-node RAC cluster with a database up and running using ASM and
> we're trying to add another database to the cluster via DBCA. It shows up a
> popup with the following message at the "storage options" screen in dbca --
>
> DBCA could not start ASM instance configured on this node. To proceed with
> database creation using ASM you need the ASM instance to be up and running.
> Do you want to recreate the ASM instance on this node?
>
> The OS is Linux4 and the database is 10.2.0.3. ASM is seen OK from sqlplus
> and EM finds it healthy. I've an SR open with Oracle but I suspect it will
> take longer to diagnose the issue and thought if anyone had any tips etc to
> check. We're not getting any hits on Google and/or metalink.
>
> TIA,
>
> - Ravi Gaur
> Lead Systems DBA
> Univ of IL.
>


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