259301.1: CRS and 10g Real Application Clusters
Note Oracle Note 259301.1 is extremely important to read.
280589.1: CRS Installation Does Not Succeed if One or More Cluster Nodes
Present are Not to be Configured for CRS.
265769.1: 10g RAC: Troubleshooting CRS Reboots
279793.1: How to Restore a Lost Vote Disk in 10g
146580.1: What is an ORA-600 Internal Error?
268937.1: Repairing or Restoring an Inconsistent OCR in RAC
239998.1: 10g RAC: How to Clean Up After a Failed CRS Install
Two items missing in the above guide are:
/etc/oracle/ocr.loc
file. This file contains the location for the Cluster registry. If this file is not removed then during the next installation the installer will not query for the OCR location and will pick it from this file.
/var/opt/oracle/srvConfig.loc
. If this file is present the installer will pick up the Vote disk location from this file and may create the error "the Vote disk should be placed on a shared file system" even before specifying the Vote disk location.
272332.1: CRS 10g Diagnostic Collection Guide