ORA-29701 raised in ASM I/O path; terminating process

[ID 1328629.1]

Symptoms
You have logged in to the system via an OS user other than Grid and RDBMS Home Onwer. You have made an local bequeath connection to
the database and running SQL like create tablespace, creating tables, creating indexes.

bash-3.00$ id
uid=4600(u500) gid=1527(u500)
bash-3.00$ export ORACLE_SID=HA112
bash-3.00$ export ORACLE_HOME=/refresh/oracle/app/oracle/product/11.2.0
bash-3.00$ export PATH=$PATH:$ORACLE_HOME/bin

bash-3.00$ sqlplus /nolog
SQL*Plus: Release 11.2.0.2.0 Production on Tue Jun 7 14:59:59 2011
Copyright (c) 1982, 2010, Oracle. All rights reserved.
SQL> conn u5/u5
Connected.
SQL> create tablespace ts5 datafile '+DATA';
create tablespace ts5 datafile '+DATA'
*
ERROR at line 1:
ORA-03113: end-of-file on communication channel
Process ID: 6291584
Session ID: 29 Serial number: 241


Database alert.log shows
Tue Jun 07 15:00:56 2011
create tablespace ts5 datafile '+DATA'
ERROR: unrecoverable error ORA-29701 raised in ASM I/O path; terminating process 6291584
The trace file shows
2011-06-07 15:00:57.349: [GIPCXCPT] gipcmodClsaAuthStart: failuring during clsaauthmsg ret clsaretOSD (8), endp 110e72290
[0000000000000018] { gipcEndpoint : localAddr 'clsc://(
ADDRESS=(PROTOCOL=ipc)(KEY=)(GIPCID=36cb13cc-0aeca9ae-6291584))', remoteAddr 'clsc://(ADDRESS=(PROTOCOL=ipc)
(KEY=OCSSD_LL_ceaixcb9_)(GIPCID=0aeca9ae-36cb13cc-9044020))', numPend
5, numReady 0, numDone 2, numDead 0, numTransfer 0, objFlags 0x0, pidPeer 9044020, flags 0x2ca712, usrFlags 0x34000 }
https://support.oracle.com/CSP/main/article?cmd=show&type=NOT&do...
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2011-06-07 15:00:57.388: [GIPCXCPT] gipcmodClsaAuthStart: slos op : open
2011-06-07 15:00:57.388: [GIPCXCPT] gipcmodClsaAuthStart: slos dep : Permission denied (13)
2011-06-07 15:00:57.388: [GIPCXCPT] gipcmodClsaAuthStart: slos loc : authrespset3
2011-06-07 15:00:57.388: [GIPCXCPT] gipcmodClsaAuthStart: slos info: failed to open
2011-06-07 15:00:57.389: [ CSSCLNT]clssscConnect: gipc request failed with 22 (12)
2011-06-07 15:00:57.389: [ CSSCLNT]clsssInitNative: connect to (ADDRESS=(PROTOCOL=ipc)(KEY=OCSSD_LL_ceaixcb9_)) failed, rc
22
kgxgncin: CLSS init failed with status 3
kgxgncin: return status 3 (1311719766 SKGXN not av) from CLSS
NOTE: kfmsInit: ASM failed to initialize group services
Error ORA-29701 signaled at
ksedsts()+644<-ksf_short_stack()+88<-kge_snap_callstack()+56<-kge_sigtrace_dump()+56<-kgepop()+72<-kgeselv()+116<-ksesecl0()+80<-kfmsInit()+176<-SlvReg()+436<-kfmdSlvOpPriv()+4688<-kfmdWriteSubmitted()+1132<-kfk_process_an_ioq()+268<-kfk_submit_io()+80<-kfk_io1()+1004<-kfkRequest()+28<-)+5016<-kfioRequestPriv()+236<-kfioRequest()+620<-ksfd_kfioRequest()+576<-ksfd_osmcrt()+2500<-ksfd_create1()+1516<-ksfd_create()+224<-ksfdcre()+<-tbsafl()+1596<-ctsdrv1()+3972<-ctsdrv()+20<-opiexe()+14916<-opiosq0()+9116<-kpooprx()+400<-kpoal8()+1028<-opiodr()+3608<-ttcpip()+4628<-opitsk()+3608<-opidrv()+1200<-sou2o()+192<-opimai_real()+428<-ssthrdmain()+340<-main()+216<-__start()+112 ERROR: unrecoverable error ORA-29701 raised in ASM I/O path; terminating process 6291584

Cause

Bug 12536779 discusses this issue. On 11.2.0.2 SIHA there is removal of world read/write/execute permissions on a few directories and that is intended.

Solution

1] We recommend that the OS user that is making bequeath connection belong to oinstall group. Or you can have the connection through listener.

2] If we do not care about the security of OS user not belonging to oinstall group, modifying the following directories, then the following workaround can be used

# chmod 1777 $GRID_HOME/auth/css/
# chmod 1777 $GRID_HOME/auth/css/
# chmod 1777 $GRID_HOME/auth/
# chmod 0755 $GRID_HOME

References
BUG:12536779 - ORA-29701 OCCURRED DUE TO PERMISSION DENIED
BUG:12599647 - ORA-29701 RAISED IN ASM I/O PATH; TERMINATING PROCESS 1192124