ASM fail to start with error ORA-48189 and Permission denied message (Doc ID

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Symptoms

Cause

Solution

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Applies to:

Oracle Database - Enterprise Edition - Version 12.1.0.2 to 12.1.0.2 [Release 12.1]
Information in this document applies to any platform.

Symptoms

While starting cluster from the node, below message logged in clusterware alert.log

2015-03-20 15:05:53.252 [ORAAGENT(31078)]CRS-5017: The resource action "ora.asm start" encountered the following error:
2015-03-20 15:05:53.252+ORA-48189: OS command to create directory failed
Linux-x86_64 Error: 13: Permission denied
Additional information: 2
. For details refer to "(:CLSN00107:)" in "/apps/oracle/diag/crs/rachost1/crs/trace/ohasd_oraagent_grid.trc".

Manual startup of ASM results below error

SYS@+ASM1 > startup;
ORA-48189: OS command to create directory failed
Linux-x86_64 Error: 13: Permission denied
Additional information: 2

 

Cause

Wrong permission on the ADR directory for asm

The 'asm' directory inside $ORACLE_BASE/diag owned by root.

[grid@rac12cn1 diag]$ ls -l $ORACLE_BASE/diag
total 68
drwxrwxr-x 2 grid oinstall 4096 Sep  9  2014 afdboot
drwxrwxr-x 2 grid oinstall 4096 Sep  9  2014 apx
drwxrwxr-x 3 root root     4096 Sep  9  2014 asm  <<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<
drwxrwxr-x 2 grid oinstall 4096 Sep  9  2014 asmtool
drwxrwxr-x 3 grid oinstall 4096 Sep  9  2014 clients
drwxr-x--- 3 grid oinstall 4096 Sep  9  2014 crs

 

Solution

Correct permissions issue in the ADR directory. The asm folder should be owned by grid user recursively