When creating a database on a new or seldom used version of Oracle I always like to use the “Generate Database Creation Scripts” option of DBCA so I can have a look at what it’s going to do for me before I decide which scripts I want to run. I recently saw the following line in one of these scripts generated by an 11.2 DBCA:
host /u01/grid/11.2.0/bin/setasmgidwrap o=/u01/app/oracle/product/11.2.0/db_1/bin/oracle
The name is pretty self explanatory (it’s the step that changes the group ownership of the oracle binary from the software owner’s primary group (probably OINSTALL) to the OSASM group) but I thought I’d have a quick search on My Oracle Support to find out more…
No results found.
Nothing unusual there, since Metalink was downgraded to its present state I’ve become accustomed to this message :). Let’s try the Oracle documentation:
Your search term oracle setasmgidwrap did not match any topics.
Surely Google will hit something…
Your search – oracle setasmgidwrap – did not match any documents
No hits again. So I’ve created this post purely to create an illegitimate Oracle Google Whack. At least once this post is indexed by the search engines. It’s illegitimate by the way because:
A Googlewhack must consist of two actual words found in a dictionary.
Below is a demonstration of SETASMGIDWRAP in action (watch the group ownership on the oracle binary):
%*> ls -l $ORACLE_HOME/bin/oracle -rwsr-s--x 1 oracle oinstall 260199063 Jan 12 15:15 /u01/app/oracle/product/11.2.0/db_1/bin/oracle %*> $CRS_HOME/bin/setasmgidwrap o=$ORACLE_HOME/bin/oracle %*> ls -l $ORACLE_HOME/bin/oracle -r-sr-s--x 1 oracle asmadmin 260199063 Jan 12 15:15 /u01/app/oracle/product/11.2.0/db_1/bin/oracle
ORAganism 
Thank You for good idea.
> $CRS_HOME/bin/setasmgidwrap o=$ORACLE_HOME/bin/oracle
But we’re changing permission in $ORACLE_HOME/bin/oracle file. we should shutdown before or not …
$ ls -l /u01/app/product/11.2.0/dbhome_1/bin/oracle
-rwsr-s–x 1 oracle oinstall 211075466 Feb 25 10:58 /u01/app/product/11.2.0
$ /u01/app/grid/bin/setasmgidwrap o=$ORACLE_HOME/bin/oracle
$ ls -l /u01/app/product/11.2.0/dbhome_1/bin/oracle
-r-sr-s–x 1 oracle osasm 211075466 Feb 25 10:58 /u01/app/product/11.2.0/dbhome_1/bin/oracle
Alert Log:
Sat Feb 27 03:23:10 2010
Process m000 died, see its trace file
Process m001 died, see its trace file
Process m000 died, see its trace file
Sat Feb 27 03:23:22 2010
Errors in file /u01/app/diag/rdbms/orcl/orcl/trace/orcl_j000_30592.trc:
ORA-27140: attach to post/wait facility failed
ORA-27300: OS system dependent operation:invalid_egid failed with status: 1
ORA-27301: OS failure message: Operation not permitted
ORA-27302: failure occurred at: skgpwinit6
ORA-27303: additional information: startup egid = 501 (oinstall), current egid = 506 (osasm)
-)
Hi Surachart.
You are correct, you want to shut down any instances using the oracle binary before changing the group. The second “s” in the file permissions is where your process picks up the effective group ID (EGID) of “osasm” (in your case). You now have a different EGID for the instance than for any new processes that will start and the instance doesn’t look too happy about it 🙂 A restart should see you fine.
It’s worth bearing in mind that you may not need to change the group at all. In my installation the “oracle” user has been used for the ASM home and the database home so the group isn’t too significant, just interesting.
Kind regards
Hi there,
the question is:
Why does oracle change the group during creation of a database? Right after installation (after linking) it would be more suitable…
Even when I install a patch that relinks oracle binary, or when relink all, permissions are wrong again.
For my point of view the action to change the group should be part of a post install script, like root.sh
Regards Mathias Zarick
Hi Mathias (apologies for late reply – I didn’t get an email alerting me to the comment),
This group change is only included if you use ASM. For filesystem based databases the commands are not put there by DBCA so I’m guessing the intention is to only change it when necessary – (which is foolproof as we all use DBCA don’t we 😉
It’s not very joined up thinking though because if you start with a filesystem based database and then add a second ASM based one, DBCA will change the GID of the oracle binary and we’d get a situation like Surachart’s above.
I’d not considered the impact of a relink – good thinking. I’m planning to apply the April PSU in a week or two so I’ll be sure to check the permissions afterwards.
Thanks
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Hi,
Did you solve this problem anyway? I´m having the same problem.
Thanks.
Hi Eduardo,
Which problem are you experiencing?
Certainly if the ownership of the Oracle binary has changed while the instance was up then you’ll be having some problems. Either switching the permissions back or restarting the instance would fix the symptoms.
It would be nice to know what error you have and what activity caused it though.
Kind regards
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I had same problem and see below messages . when I was creating instance on asm using dbca. instance was created but it killed all the existing instance . shutdown the new instace and restarted other instance and started new instance . no errors in alert log
My understadning dbca has changed group permission at the time installion ( using ASM )
ORA-27140: attach to post/wait facility failed
ORA-27300: OS system dependent operation:invalid_egid failed with status: 1
ORA-27301: OS failure message: Operation not permitted
ORA-27302: failure occurred at: skgpwinit6
ORA-27303: additional information: startup egid = 300 (oinstall), current egid = 312 (osasm)
2011-12-13 10:01:52.435000 +11:00
Process J000 died, see its trace file
Yes it certainly looks that way. Pre ASM the group for the oracle binary was oinstall but after installing ASM the group was changed to allow you to access the storage. Thanks for the information Raj.
Regards
Neil
Hi Neil,
I had the same problem, I am trying duplicate my PRD RAC ASM database to DEV RAC ASM. So when use rman comand duplicate database, i got the error bellow.
channel ORA_AUX_DISK_1: restoring control file
RMAN-00571: ===========================================================
RMAN-00569: =============== ERROR MESSAGE STACK FOLLOWS ===============
RMAN-00571: ===========================================================
RMAN-03002: failure of Duplicate Db command at 04/26/2013 12:22:18
RMAN-05501: aborting duplication of target database
RMAN-03015: error occurred in stored script Memory Script
RMAN-10038: database session for channel ORA_AUX_DISK_1 terminated unexpectedly
my alert.log show me this error.
ORACLE_BASE from environment = /u02/app/oracle/devvttk
Errors in file /u02/app/oracle/devvttk/diag/rdbms/devvttk/devvttk1/trace/devvttk1_rbal_3339.trc:
ORA-15183: ASMLIB initialization error [driver/agent not installed]
WARNING: FAILED to load library: /opt/oracle/extapi/64/asm/orcl/1/libasm.so
Errors in file /u02/app/oracle/devvttk/diag/rdbms/devvttk/devvttk1/trace/devvttk1_rbal_3339.trc:
ORA-15183: ASMLIB initialization error [driver/agent not installed]
Mon Apr 29 10:18:02 2013
SUCCESS: diskgroup DG_TTK was mounted
Errors in file /u02/app/oracle/devvttk/diag/rdbms/devvttk/devvttk1/trace/devvttk1_ora_3379.trc (incident=359669):
ORA-00600: internal error code, arguments: [kfioTranslateIO03], [], [], [], [], [], [], [], [], [], [], []
Incident details in: /u02/app/oracle/devvttk/diag/rdbms/devvttk/devvttk1/incident/incdir_359669/devvttk1_ora_3379_i359669.trc
Use ADRCI or Support Workbench to package the incident.
I have changed the permission for $ORACLE_HOME/bin/oracle binary. and i receveid this error from rman.
rman auxiliary /
Recovery Manager: Release 11.2.0.3.0 – Production on Mon Apr 29 11:23:08 2013
Copyright (c) 1982, 2011, Oracle and/or its affiliates. All rights reserved.
RMAN-00571: ===========================================================
RMAN-00569: =============== ERROR MESSAGE STACK FOLLOWS ===============
RMAN-00571: ===========================================================
RMAN-00554: initialization of internal recovery manager package failed
RMAN-04006: error from auxiliary database: ORA-27140: attach to post/wait facility failed
ORA-27300: OS system dependent operation:invalid_egid failed with status: 1
ORA-27301: OS failure message: Operation not permitted
ORA-27302: failure occurred at: skgpwinit6
ORA-27303: additional information: startup egid = 1000 (oinstall), current egid = 1020 (asmadmin)
Hi Mauro,
I guess many DBAs will see this error at least once in their careers – hopefully only once though.
Thanks for leaving a comment
Neil
I really appreciate the way you have document the information and answered the questions. Very helpful information.
Hi Neil,
I work on ODA’s and this message comes up if there is a second Oracle home added to the box. On an ODA, this command will need to be run on both nodes to allow the second Oracle home to write on the ASM disk. During a SR with Oracle, it was noted that this command should be run when installing the second oracle home. DBCA will run this command on the first node only when building a database, but will not run it on the second node. I ran into this while trying to do an rman restore on an ODA 4-2, second node and the controlfiles failed to restore. Once the command was ran on node 2, all was fine, database restored.
Thanks
Ted
Thanks for the info Ted, I’d not considered a second home.
This really stinks. Honestly I would of thought that they would put some logic into relink to get the gid of the running oracle process, which they have already written as other process can detect changes between the file and the other running pids. It is lazy to just default to the default group. I still don’t understand how to get around this if you have to install a patch where you have a shared home. You basically have to take an outage to get the cluster back to sanity.
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