Daily Archives: November 6, 2012

scsi_id on CentOS 6 on VMware returns null

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You may find the scsi_id command returns a null result in CentOS 6 or RHEL 6 on VMware.

[root@localhost ~]# scsi_id -g -u -d /dev/sdb
[root@localhost ~]#

 
The problem here is that VMware Workstation does not provide unique SCSI identifiers to the virtual SCSI devices. We need to modify the VMX file to make this happen by adding the following directive:

disk.EnableUUID = "TRUE"

 
Restart the VM and now the scsi_id command should work:

[root@localhost ~]# scsi_id -g -u -d /dev/sdb
36000c2980c56d98cc5150a0ac103058d

11gR2 Grid install – clscfg.bin: error while loading shared libraries: libcap.so.1: cannot open shared object file

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You are installing 11gR2 11.2.0.1 Grid Infrastructure on Red Hat 6, CentOS 6 or similar Linux operating system, and right at the very end of the process, the root.sh script blows up with a really odd error:

[root@localhost oraInventory]# cd /u01/app/oracle/product/11.2.0/db_1
[root@localhost db_1]# ./root.sh
Running Oracle 11g root.sh script...

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