Another problem with “KSV master wait” and “ASM file metadata operation”

My customer today tried to do a duplicate on a cluster. When preparing the auxiliary instance, she noticed that the startup nomount was hanging forever: Nothing in the alert, nothing in the trace files.

Because the database and the spfile were stored inside ASM, I’ve been quite suspicious…

The ASM trace files had the following entries:

The ASM instance had the following sessions waiting:

OMS?

Around 12:38:56, another colleague in the office added a disk to one of the disk groups, through Enterprise Manager 12c!

But there were no rebalance operations:

It’s not the first time that I hit this type of problems. Sadly, sometimes it requires a full restart of the cluster or of ASM (because of different bugs).

This time, however, I have tried to kill only the foreground sessions waiting on “ASM file metadata operation”, starting with the one coming from the OMS.

Surprisingly, after killing that session, everything was fine again:

I never add disks via OMS (I’m a sqlplus guy ;-)) , I wonder what went wrong with it 🙂

Ludovico