Fix terminating the instance due to error 27625; Instance terminated by RBAL, pid = ; summary=[abnormal instance termination]

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Error description

ASM instance is down with following messages in the alert.log file.

NOTE: ASMB mounting group 2 (DATA_T1)

Fri Sep 16 01:39:42 2016

WARNING: cellinit.ora is missing. RBAL is terminating the instance.

RBAL (ospid: 11489): terminating the instance due to error 27625

Fri Sep 16 01:39:42 2016

System state dump requested by (instance=1, osid=11489 (RBAL)), summary=[abnormal instance termination].

System State dumped to trace file /u01/app/oracle/diag/rdbms/onlprod/TMLPRODSTBY/trace/TMLPRODSTBY_diag_11446_20160916013942.trc

Fri Sep 16 01:39:42 2016

Dumping diagnostic data in directory=[cdmp_20160916013942], requested by (instance=1, osid=11489 (RBAL)), summary=[abnormal instance termination].

Fri Sep 16 01:39:42 2016

Instance terminated by RBAL, pid = 11489

Solution Description

This is an Ownership issue. The reason for the ownership change must be because of the oracle software reinstallation or a patch apply. This changed the group (ASMADMIN) to (OINSTALL) for ORACLE user and   $ORACLE_HOME/bin folder. So now you have to change the group back again to ASMADMIN and give appropriate permission also.

[oracle@ bin]$ ls -tlr oracle

-rwsr-s--x. 1 oracle oinstall 323943640 Sep 14 07:36 oracle

[oracle@ trace]$ cd $ORACLE_HOME/bin

[oracle@ bin]$ ls -tlr oracle

-rwsr-s--x. 1 oracle oinstall 323943640 Sep 14 07:36 oracle

[oracle@ bin]$ su - root

Password:

Last login: Thu Sep 15 06:26:41 EDT 2016 on pts/1

[root@~]# cd $ORACLE_HOME/bin

[root@bin]# chgrp asmadmin oracle

[root@bin]# chmod 6751 oracle

[root@bin]# ls -tlr oracle

-rwsr-s--x. 1 oracle asmadmin 323943640 Sep 14 07:36 oracle

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