How to Clean Up After a Failed Oracle Clusterware (CRS) Installation

Subject: How to Clean Up After a Failed Oracle Clusterware (CRS) Installation
  Doc ID: 239998.1 Type:  BULLETIN
  Modified Date:  18-MAR-2009 Status:  PUBLISHED


PURPOSE
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The purpose of this document is to help DBA's and support analysts understand how
to clean up a failed CRS (Cluster Ready Services) install for 10g RAC.


SCOPE & APPLICATION
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DBA's and Support Analysts


10g RAC: How to Clean Up After a Failed CRS Install
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Not cleaning up a failed CRS install can cause problems like node reboots.
Follow these steps to clean up a failed CRS install:

1. Run the rootdelete.sh script then the rootdeinstall.sh script from the
$ORA_CRS_HOME/install directory on any nodes you are removing CRS from.  Running
these scripts should be sufficent to clean up your CRS install.  Rootdelete.sh
accepts options like nosharedvar/sharedvar, and nosharedhome/sharedhome. Make
yourself familiar with these options by reading the Oracle Clusterware and
Oracle Real Application Clusters Administration and Deployment Guide.
If you have any problems with these scripts please open a service request.  

If for some reason you have to manually remove the install due to problems
with the scripts, continue to step 2:

2. Stop the Nodeapps on all nodes:

        srvctl stop nodeapps -n

3. Prevent CRS from starting when the node boots.  To do this issue the following
as root:

Sun:

        rm /etc/init.d/init.cssd
        rm /etc/init.d/init.crs
        rm /etc/init.d/init.crsd
        rm /etc/init.d/init.evmd
        rm /etc/rc3.d/K96init.crs
        rm /etc/rc3.d/S96init.crs
        rm -Rf /var/opt/oracle/scls_scr
        rm -Rf /var/opt/oracle/oprocd
        rm /etc/inittab.crs
        cp /etc/inittab.orig /etc/inittab

Linux:

        rm /etc/oracle/*
        rm -f /etc/init.d/init.cssd
        rm -f /etc/init.d/init.crs
        rm -f /etc/init.d/init.crsd
        rm -f /etc/init.d/init.evmd
        rm -f /etc/rc2.d/K96init.crs
        rm -f /etc/rc2.d/S96init.crs
        rm -f /etc/rc3.d/K96init.crs
        rm -f /etc/rc3.d/S96init.crs
        rm -f /etc/rc5.d/K96init.crs
        rm -f /etc/rc5.d/S96init.crs
        rm -Rf /etc/oracle/scls_scr
        rm -f /etc/inittab.crs
        cp /etc/inittab.orig /etc/inittab

HP-UX:

        rm /sbin/init.d/init.cssd
        rm /sbin/init.d/init.crs
        rm /sbin/init.d/init.crsd
        rm /sbin/init.d/init.evmd
        rm /sbin/rc2.d/K960init.crs
        rm /sbin/rc2.d/K001init.crs
        rm /sbin/rc3.d/K960init.crs
        rm /sbin/rc3.d/S960init.crs
        rm -Rf /var/opt/oracle/scls_scr
        rm -Rf /var/opt/oracle/oprocd
        rm /etc/inittab.crs
        cp /etc/inittab.orig /etc/inittab

HP Tru64:

        rm /sbin/init.d/init.cssd
        rm /sbin/init.d/init.crs
        rm /sbin/init.d/init.crsd
        rm /sbin/init.d/init.evmd
        rm /sbin/rc3.d/K96init.crs
        rm /sbin/rc3.d/S96init.crs
        rm -Rf /var/opt/oracle/scls_scr
        rm -Rf /var/opt/oracle/oprocd
        rm /etc/inittab.crs
        cp /etc/inittab.orig /etc/inittab

IBM AIX:

        rm /etc/init.cssd
        rm /etc/init.crs
        rm /etc/init.crsd
        rm /etc/init.evmd
        rm /etc/rc.d/rc2.d/K96init.crs
        rm /etc/rc.d/rc2.d/S96init.crs
        rm -Rf /etc/oracle/scls_scr
        rm -Rf /etc/oracle/oprocd
        rm /etc/inittab.crs
        cp /etc/inittab.orig /etc/inittab

4. If they are not already down, kill off EVM, CRS, and CSS processes or reboot
   the node:

        ps -ef | grep crs       
        kill
        ps -ef | grep evm
        kill
        ps -ef | grep css       
        kill

   Do not kill any OS processes, for example icssvr_daemon process !

5. If there is no other Oracle software running (like listeners, DB's, etc...),
   you can remove the files in /var/tmp/.oracle or /tmp/.oracle.  Example:

        rm -f /var/tmp/.oracle/*

        or

        rm -f /tmp/.oracle/*

6. Remove the ocr.loc
   Usually the ocr.loc can be found at /etc/oracle

7. De-install the CRS home in the Oracle Universal Installer

8. Remove the CRS install location:

          rm -Rf /*

9. Clean out the OCR and Voting Files with dd commands.  Example:

        dd if=/dev/zero of=/dev/rdsk/V1064_vote_01_20m.dbf bs=1M count=256
        dd if=/dev/zero of=/dev/rdsk/ocrV1064_100m.ora bs=1M count=256
        dd if=/dev/zero of=/dev/rdy_crs1024m bs=4096

   See the Clusterware Installation Guide for sizing requirements...  

   If you placed the OCR and voting disk on a shared filesystem, remove them.

   If you are removing the RDBMS installation, also clean out any ASM disks if
   they have already been used.

10. It is good practice to reboot the node before starting the next install.

11.If you would like to re-install CRS, follow the steps in the RAC Installation manual.