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Oracle: Error in starting opmn server

Asked by: debra_meiers

I have a VM, which is being administered by VMware Lab Manager.  The VM is running RHEL 5.1, and has an Oracle 11g database installed.

I am in the process of trying to install and configure Oracle Internet Directory 11g.  To do this, I ran the Oracle Fusion Middleware 11g Oracle Identity Management Installer.  I selected the "Install Software - Do Not Configure" installation type, and chose to "Configure without a Domain" in order to avoid having to install and administer a WebLogic domain.  The installation routine ran successfully.

But, I ran into a problem while trying to configure the Oracle Identity Management 11g components.  I ran the Oracle Identity Management 11g Release 1 Configuration Wizard [ORACLE_IDM_HOME/bin/config.sh].  Here are some of the key configuration values that I entered:

- Oracle Instance Location: /data1/u01/config/oracle/as_admin/asinst_1
- Oracle Instance Name: asinst_1
- Select Domain: Configure without a Domain
- Configure Components: Oracle Internet Directory
- Configure Ports: Auto Port Configuration
- Specify Schema Database: Create Schema

After entering my configuration values and hitting the Configure button, the configuration process started running.  Shortly thereafter, under Bootstrap Domain Configuration, "Failed" appeared next to the "Create ASInstance" line, with the following error listed:

Error creating ASInstance asinst_1
  Cause: An internal operation has failed: Error in starting opmn server
  Operation aborted because of a system call failure or internal error

[I have attached the output from the error log for the Oracle Identity Management 11g Configuration Wizard, in case it would be helpful.]

To get more information, I tried to manually start the opmn server [I set ORACLE_INSTANCE to "/data1/u01/config/oracle/as_admin/asinst_1" and then ran "./opmnctl start" from the ORACLE_IDM_HOME/opmn/bin directory].  As expected, the server failed to start.  But, I checked the opmn.out file [in the ORACLE_INSTANCE/diagnostics/logs/OPMN/opmn directory], and found the following error repeated several times:

OPMN worker process exited with status 8b. Restarting.
OPMN worker process exited with status 8b. Restarting.
...
OPMN worker process terminated with signal 11 7 times in 10 seconds -- aborting!

Does anyone know what this error means?  I am at a loss as to what to do at this point, so any help would be greatly appreciated.

Thank you!

oracle.as.provisioning.util.ConfigException: 
Error creating ASInstance asinst_1.
Cause: 
An internal operation has failed: Error in starting opmn server
Operation aborted because of a system call failure or internal error
Action: 
See logs for more details.
	at oracle.as.provisioning.util.ConfigException.createConfigException(ConfigException.java:123)
	at oracle.as.provisioning.fmwadmin.ASInstanceProv._createInstance(ASInstanceProv.java:306)
	at oracle.as.provisioning.fmwadmin.ASInstanceProv.createInstance(ASInstanceProv.java:163)
	at 
oracle.as.provisioning.fmwadmin.ASInstanceProv.createInstanceAndComponents(ASInstanceProv.java:114)
	at 
oracle.as.provisioning.engine.WorkFlowExecutor._createASInstancesAndComponents(WorkFlowExecutor.java:533)
	at 
oracle.as.provisioning.engine.WorkFlowExecutor.executeWLSWorkFlow(WorkFlowExecutor.java:437)
	at oracle.as.provisioning.engine.Config.executeConfigWorkflow_WLS(Config.java:870)
	at oracle.as.provisioning.engine.Config.executeConfigWorkflow_WLS(Config.java:824)
	at oracle.as.idm.install.config.BootstrapConfigManager.doExecute(BootstrapConfigManager.java:1256)
	at 
oracle.as.install.engine.modules.configuration.client.ConfigAction.execute(ConfigAction.java:335)
	at 
oracle.as.install.engine.modules.configuration.action.TaskPerformer.run(TaskPerformer.java:87)
	at 
oracle.as.install.engine.modules.configuration.action.TaskPerformer.startConfigAction(TaskPerformer.java:104)
	at oracle.as.install.engine.modules.configuration.action.ActionRequest.perform(ActionRequest.java:15)
	at 
oracle.as.install.engine.modules.configuration.action.RequestQueue.perform(RequestQueue.java:63)
	at 
oracle.as.install.engine.modules.configuration.standard.StandardConfigActionManager.start(StandardConfigActionManager.java:158)
	at 
oracle.as.install.engine.modules.configuration.boot.ConfigurationExtension.kickstart(ConfigurationExtension.java:81)
	at 
oracle.as.install.engine.modules.configuration.ConfigurationModule.run(ConfigurationModule.java:82)
	at java.lang.Thread.run(Thread.java:619)
Caused by: oracle.as.management.opmn.optic.OpticException: Error in starting opmn server
Operation aborted because of a system call failure or internal error
	at oracle.as.management.opmn.optic.OpmnAdmin.executeCommand(OpmnAdmin.java:255)
	at oracle.as.management.opmn.optic.OpmnAdmin.startOpmnServer(OpmnAdmin.java:87)
	at oracle.as.provisioning.fmwadmin.ASInstanceProv._createInstance(ASInstanceProv.java:251)
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by: schwertnerPosted on 2009-08-19 at 04:56:02ID: 25131566

One asker wrote me: while working with Oracle Support, they suggested we check permissions and ownership on the oidldapd file.  
They then also stated that these permissions could be set by running the root.sh script.  
We went ahead and ran that script and then when it came to the question,
"Enter the full pathname of the local bin directory: /usr/local/bin", we stopped and thought about it.
 Previously, we would just take the default /usr/local/bin but this time we decided to use the $ORACLE_HOME/bin directory.
 This was the key that we were looking for.  The application server started right up.  It is the little things that will stop you cold.

 

by: debra_meiersPosted on 2009-08-19 at 12:33:37ID: 25136407

Thank you for the suggestion, schwertner!  Unfortunately, when I run the ORACLE_IDM_HOME/bin/root.sh script, it does not prompt me for any values [to include the local bin directory].  Thinking that a value might have been cached somewhere, I reset my VM to the point where it only had Oracle 11g installed.  I then reinstalled Oracle Identity Management 11g... when I ran the root.sh script at the end, it still did not prompt me for anything.

I appreciate your attempt to help.

 

by: debra_meiersPosted on 2009-08-31 at 15:54:42ID: 25227250

As a follow-up, I wanted to let everyone know that the problem was relative to my VM.  When I installed the software on a regular laptop, things worked without any problems.

In debugging the problem, my VMware Lab Manager administrator found that the error occurred with ESX 3.5.0 123630 running on a Dell PowerEdge R805 with an Athlon processor (the VM was assigned 2GB of memory and 1 CPU).  The error did not occur with ESXi 4.0.0 164009 running on a Dell PowerEdge 2950 with a Xeon processor (the VM was assigned 2GB of memory and 1 CPU).

So, at this point, we suspect that the LabManager software with ESX 3.5.0 is the problem. We have a LabManager upgrade with ESX 4.0 waiting in the wings, but it may take a bit for the right people to find time to install it. If, for some reason, the LabManager upgrade does not fix the problem, then it is possible that Oracle is having an issue with the Athlon host processor.

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