Sun Cluster 3.1 Data Service 5/03 Release Notes

HA Oracle Stop Method Times Out (4644289)

If you are running Solaris 9, include the following entries in the /etc/nsswitch.conf configuration files on each node that can be the primary for oracle_server or oracle_listener resource so that the data service starts and stops correctly during a network failure:

passwd: files
groups: files
publickey: files
project:  files

The Sun Cluster HA for Oracle data service uses the super user command, su(1M), to start and stop the database. The network service might become unavailable when a cluster node's public network fails. Adding the above entries ensures that the su command does not refer to the NIS/NIS+ name services.