ORA-15183

This post is long overdue, and it’s as much a reminder to myself as it is a post for you to find when scratching your head.

Here’s the situation: Oracle Restart on an Oracle Enterprise Linux 5.5 system with ASMLib in use. I have installed 11.2.0.2 plus the latest PSU to bring database and Grid Infrastructure to 11.2.0.2.5-so far so good. I have used the non-GUI approach and everything seemed ok until I tried to create a database for some benchmarking. Here’s the surprising output: