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.

Code:
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
So I had a look at the dependencies

Code:
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)
As you can see clusterware is running on both nodes fine

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

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

Code:
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.
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