Oracle Linux 6: Unable to Load 'oracleasm' Module After Migrating From RHEL to OL (Doc ID 2653915.1)

Last updated on MAY 01, 2023

Applies to:

Symptoms

Oracleasm fails to load with “Required key not available" when RHCK kernel from the Oracle Repository and kmod-oracleasm is from RedHat repository.

The /var/log/messages contain the error messages

modprobe: FATAL: Error inserting oracleasm (/lib/modules/2.6.32-754.27.1.el6.x86_64/weak-updates/oracleasm/oracleasm.ko): Required key not available
modprobe: FATAL: Error inserting oracleasm (/lib/modules/2.6.32-754.27.1.el6.x86_64/weak-updates/oracleasm/oracleasm.ko): Required key not available

Loading oracleasm fails with below error

Loading module "oracleasm": failed
Loading module "oracleasm": failed
Unable to load module "oracleasm"
Unable to load module "oracleasm"
mount: unknown filesystem type 'oracleasmfs'
Mounting ASMlib driver filesystem: failed
Mounting ASMlib driver filesystem: failed
Unable to mount ASMlib driver filesystem
Unable to mount ASMlib driver filesystem

Changes

Server migrated from RHEL to OL and new RHCK kernel installed from Oracle Linux 6 (x86_64) Latest. The kmod-oracleasm package was already latest before migration and installed from the RedHat. Channel.

Cause

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