This is the post for the error “ORA-29702”.

ORA-29702: ERROR OCCURRED IN CLUSTER GROUP SERVICE OPERATION

Cause: An unexpected error occurred while performing a CGS operation.

 

Action: Verify that the LMON process is still active. Also, check the Oracle LMON trace files for errors.

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ORA-29702: ERROR OCCURRED IN CLUSTER GROUP SERVICE OPERATION
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Got the above error while starting up test instance in nomount from prod instance where as prod is a Cluster database.

-bash-3.2$ sqlplus "/as sysdba"

SQL*Plus: Release 11.2.0.3.0 Production on Sun Feb 9 20:03:36 2014

Copyright (c) 1982, 2011, Oracle.  All rights reserved.

Connected to an idle instance.

SQL> startup nomount;
ORA-29702: error occurred in Cluster Group Service operation

SQL> shut immediate;
ORA-01034: ORACLE not available
ORA-27101: shared memory realm does not exist
Linux-x86_64 Error: 2: No such file or directory
SQL> exit

Solution:

-bash-3.2$ cd $ORACLE_HOME/rdbms/lib
-bash-3.2$ make -f ins_rdbms.mk rac_off ioracle
-bash-3.2$ make -f ins_rdbms.mk ioracle

Now try to start the database.

-bash-3.2$ sqlplus "/as sysdba"

SQL*Plus: Release 11.2.0.3.0 Production on Sun Feb 9 20:10:48 2014

Copyright (c) 1982, 2011, Oracle.  All rights reserved.

Connected to an idle instance.

SQL> startup nomount;
ORACLE instance started.

Total System Global Area 2137886720 bytes
Fixed Size                  2230072 bytes
Variable Size             452987080 bytes
Database Buffers         1660944384 bytes
Redo Buffers               21725184 bytes
SQL> exit

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