What to do when getting INS-30606: Partially cleaned ASM home is found.

The Problem Link to heading

Today I was trying to install the new Oracle database 11.2.0.3 software on an existing RAC cluster - for upgrade.

However on the Grid Installation Options screen I found that I couldn’t press Next because every time an alert window stating INS-30606: Partially cleaned ASM home is found. would pop up during verification checks.

I am not running ASM - instead I am using NFS for all my data, OCR and voting files. Also, I had just removed the OLD Grid Infrastructure ORACLE_HOME (11.2.0.2, which I have just upgraded to 11.2.0.3) using the de-installer from: http://download.oracle.com/otn/linux/oracle11g/R2/linux.x64_11203_deinstall.zip. This ORACLE_HOME turned out to be the culprit.

Root Cause Link to heading

After playing with the oraInventory inventory.xml file etc. I finally noticed that on both nodes the following line had previously been added to /etc/oratab:

+ASM1:/u01/app/11.2.0/grid:N           # line added by Agent
+ASM2:/u01/app/11.2.0/grid:N           # line added by Agent

Solution Link to heading

Commenting out or removing this line from /etc/oratab on both nodes fixed the problem and the Oracle Installer would allow me to continue (no need to shutdown the installer).

Originally published at https://jensenmo.blogspot.com/2011/10/what-to-do-when-getting-ins-30606.html