SuperCluster: ORA-27601: CELL STORAGE INITIALIZATION FAILED, CELL LIBRARY ERROR [36] or [56] during instance startup when ora

Asset ID:	1-72-1677470.1
Update Date:	2015-09-16
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Solution 1677470.1 : SuperCluster: ORA-27601: CELL STORAGE INITIALIZATION FAILED, CELL LIBRARY ERROR [36] or [56] during instance startup when ora_nsl10 is set

Applies to:

SPARC SuperCluster T4-4 - Version All Versions to All Versions [Release All Releases]
Oracle SuperCluster M6-32 Hardware - Version All Versions to All Versions [Release All Releases]
Oracle SuperCluster T5-8 Hardware - Version All Versions to All Versions [Release All Releases]
Oracle Database - Enterprise Edition - Version 11.2.0.3 to 12.1.0.1 [Release 11.2 to 12.1]
Oracle Solaris on SPARC (64-bit)

Symptoms

1. Variable ORA_NLS10 is set

ORA_NLS10=/dhhs1i/oracle/product/112/nls/data/9idata

2. During startup, instance reports error "ORA-27601: Cell storage initialization failed, cell library error code [36] or [56]" and crashes:

eg:

ALTER DATABASE OPEN
Beginning crash recovery of 1 threads
parallel recovery started with 8 processes
Started redo scan
ORA-27601: Cell storage initialization failed, cell library error code [36]

ORA-27601: Cell storage initialization failed, cell library error code [56]

Cause

The file <GRID_HOME>/crs/install/s_crsconfig_<hostname>_env.txt has the variable NLS_LANG=AMERICAN_AMERICA.WE8ISO8859P1

eg :

TZ=localtime
NLS_LANG=AMERICAN_AMERICA.WE8ISO8859P1
TNS_ADMIN=
ORACLE_BASE=

Solution

1. Change the variable NLS_LANG from AMERICAN_AMERICA.WE8ISO8859P1 to AMERICAN_AMERICA.AL32UTF8 in all nodes.

eg :

TZ=localtime
NLS_LANG=AMERICAN_AMERICA.AL32UTF8
TNS_ADMIN=
ORACLE_BASE=

2. Restart GI in all nodes

<GRID_HOME>/bin/crsctl stop crs

<GRID_HOME>/bin/crsctl start crs

3. Start the database

<RDBMS_HOME>/bin/srvctl start -d <db-name>

References

<BUG:16314214> - ORA-56865: INVALID IP ADDRESS IN CELLINIT.ORA
<BUG:18367378> - ORA-27601: CELL STORAGE INITIALIZATION FAILED, CELL LIBRARY ERROR [36]

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