Cleaning up a failed Oracle 11g grid infrastructure install.

Unfortunately, the installer or more specifically the root.sh script for the Oracle 11g grid (Clusterware) installer can be very flaky.   If it fails and you need to fix something or rerun it for any reason, it will fail the next time if you have not cleaned up the install by de-configuring CRS. I also …

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Error PRVF-5472 during an Oracle Grid infrastructure install

This is a problem with the config of the NTP daemon (ntpd) which synchronizes time across the cluster. The specific error is to do with the boot time behavior of the daemon and needing the ‘Slewing’ option enabled. If you need to enable slewing, you can do it by typing ‘ntpd -x’, however, the grid …

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