RAC Install error with vip

HI,

During the RAC install I hit this problem. in the middle of a RAC install, where Grid, ASM and the patch for multicast have all been applied and installed correctly. I even have the clusterware up and running, but I noticed that the resource ora.LISTENER.lsnr is not running on one of the nodes. When I attempt to start the listener I am met with the following error.

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bvecrcdrprep: >./crsctl start resource ora.LISTENER.lsnr -n rvecrcdrprep       
CRS-5702: Resource 'ora.LISTENER.lsnr' is already running on 'rvecrcdrprep'   
CRS-4000: Command Start failed, or completed with errors.                     
bvecrcdrprep: >./crsctl start resource ora.LISTENER.lsnr -n bvecrcdrprep       
CRS-2805: Unable to start 'ora.LISTENER.lsnr' because it has a 'hard' dependency

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So I had a look at the dependencies

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bvecrcdrprep: >./crsctl stat res ora.LISTENER.lsnr -p|grep DEPENDENCIES       
START_DEPENDENCIES=hard(type:ora.cluster_vip_net1.type) pullup(type:ora.cluster_
vip_net1.type)                                                                 
STOP_DEPENDENCIES=hard(intermediate:type:ora.cluster_vip_net1.type)

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As you can see clusterware is running on both nodes fine

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rvecrcdrprep: >./crsctl check cluster -all                                     
**************************************************************                 
bvecrcdrprep:                                                                 
CRS-4537: Cluster Ready Services is online                                     
CRS-4529: Cluster Synchronization Services is online                           
CRS-4533: Event Manager is online                                             
**************************************************************                 
rvecrcdrprep:                                                                 
CRS-4537: Cluster Ready Services is online                                     
CRS-4529: Cluster Synchronization Services is online                           
CRS-4533: Event Manager is online                                             
**************************************************************

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When I issue an netstat -i on both nodes they are slightly different - is this normal behaviour ? The error I am getting is complaining about the vip on node bvecrcdrprep

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netstat -i                                                     
Name  Mtu  Network    Address            Ipkts Ierrs    Opkts Oerrs  Coll   
en0  1500  link#2      e6.3.fb.12.d.d    1389887    0  594673    0    0   
en0  1500  10.210      rvecrcdrprepboot  1389887    0  594673    0    0   
en0  1500  10.210      rvecrcdrprep-vip  1389887    0  594673    0    0   
en0  1500  10.210      ecrcdrprep.hscni  1389887    0  594673    0    0   
en1  1500  link#3      e6.3.fb.12.d.e    6204474    0  6590333    0    0   
en1  1500  10.210.8    rvecrcdrprep.hsc  6204474    0  6590333    0    0   
en2  1500  link#4      e6.3.fb.12.d.f    825697    0  753785    0    0   
en2  1500  10          rvecrcdrprep-pri  825697    0  753785    0    0   
en2  1500  169.254    169.254.209.75    825697    0  753785    0    0   
lo0  16896 link#1                        315291    0  315292    0    0   
lo0  16896 127        loopback          315291    0  315292    0    0   
lo0  16896 ::1%1                          315291    0  315292    0    0   
rvecrcdrprep: >                                                               

bvecrcdrprep: >netstat -i                                                     
Name  Mtu  Network    Address            Ipkts Ierrs    Opkts Oerrs  Coll   
en0  1500  link#2      9e.fe.13.3e.54.d  747183    0  1238666    0    0   
en0  1500  10.210      bvecrcdrprepboot  747183    0  1238666    0    0   
en1  1500  link#3      9e.fe.13.3e.54.e  3364089    0  1732699    0    0   
en1  1500  10.210.8    bvecrcdrprep.hsc  3364089    0  1732699    0    0   
en2  1500  link#4      9e.fe.13.3e.54.f  747296    0  834697    0    0   
en2  1500  10          bvecrcdrprep-pri  747296    0  834697    0    0   
en2  1500  169.254    169.254.56.186    747296    0  834697    0    0   
lo0  16896 link#1                        216880    0  216879    0    0   
lo0  16896 127        loopback          216880    0  216879    0    0   
lo0  16896 ::1%1                          216880    0  216879    0    0   
bvecrcdrprep: >                                                               

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rvecrcdrprep: >

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The error message in the RAC install details about the following:-

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Node Application Existence - This test checks the existence of Node Applications on the system.
  Check Failed on Nodes: [bvecrcdrprep] Check Succeeded On Nodes: [rvecrcdrprep] 
Verification result of failed node: bvecrcdrprep

 List of errors:
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PRVF-4555 : Node application "ora.bvecrcdrprep.vip" does not exist on node "bvecrcdrprep"  - Cause:  Could not identify resource specified on the node specified.  - Action:  Ensure that the resource specified is available for the node specified.

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The vip address in the grid install ran successfully and gave no errors. Like I said Clusterware, ASM, CRS all working as it should. I even rebooted the servers and the clusterware restarted successfully other than this listener, which gives the error.

Hopefully someone has some idea of what causes this and a fix.

BTW my RAC install has just completed successfully, but the LISTENER is still offline and will not start.

Many thanks