VIP/SCAN VIP Fails to Start With PRCR-1079 CRS-2674 CRS-2632 and CRS-5008: Invalid attribute value: en0 for the network interface (Doc ID 1387413.1)

Last updated on JULY 24, 2023

Applies to:

Symptoms

11gR2 Grid Infrastructure VIP (network resource) fails to start:

• Screen output

srvctl config vip -i racnode1v2
VIP exists: /racnode1v2/10.1.0.52/10.1.0.0/255.255.255.128/en0, hosting node racnode1

srvctl start vip -i racnode1v2
PRCR-1079 : Failed to start resource ora.racnode1v2.vip
CRS-2674: Start of 'ora.net2.network' on 'racnode1' failed
..
CRS-2632: There are no more servers to try to place resource 'ora.racnode1v2.vip' on that would satisfy its placement policy

Note: racnode1v2 is name of the VIP

• ifconfig en0

en0: flags=1e080863,c0<UP,BROADCAST,NOTRAILERS,RUNNING,SIMPLEX,MULTICAST,GROUPRT,64BIT,CHECKSUM_OFFLOAD(ACTIVE),LARGESEND,CHAIN>
      inet 10.1.0.14 netmask 0xffffff00 broadcast 10.1.0.255

• $GRID_HOME/log/<node>/agent/crsd/orarootagent_root/orarootagent_root.log

2011-12-15 21:12:40.797: [ora.net2.network][3138] {1:14413:2} [check] NetworkAgent::init enter {
..
2011-12-15 21:12:41.604: [ora.net2.network][3138] {1:14413:2} [check] subnetmask=255.255.255.128
2011-12-15 21:12:41.604: [ora.net2.network][3138] {1:14413:2} [check] subnetnumber=10.1.0.0
2011-12-15 21:12:41.605: [   AGENT][3138] {1:14413:2} UserErrorException: Locale is
2011-12-15 21:12:41.605: [ora.net2.network][3138] {1:14413:2} [check] CRS-5008: Invalid attribute value: en0 for the network interface
..
2011-12-15 21:12:41.606: [ora.net2.network][3138] {1:14413:2} [check] NetworkAgent::checkInterface returned false

Cause

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