We are in the cloud era and many organizations are absorbing cloud technologies to get a competitive advantage over others. The cloud market is vast, with a diverse selection of services. It’s not easy to select a suitable cloud platform for an organization.
Oracle Cloud Platform is the number one platform to host Oracle Database Workloads. They offer many service database services types like Exadata at Cloud, Exadata Cloud@Customer, and Autonomous Database and the list continues.
Oracle database service is a really efficient and effective way to host databases. Oracle has automated this service to make deployment easy and simple.
Database Service offers two types of storage management software.
In this article, I will elaborate on database service issues encountered after creating LVM-based storage architecture.
Once the VM was created and up for the first time mount points were there as expected. After we rebooted the database server mount points got disappeared.
This output of the (df -h) after a server reboot. Below mentioned output we cannot see the Oracle data and Oracle binary mount point.
[root@local-db-01 ~]# df -h
Filesystem Size Used Avail Use% Mounted on
devtmpfs 7.7G 0 7.7G 0% /dev
tmpfs 7.7G 0 7.7G 0% /dev/shm
tmpfs 7.7G 17M 7.7G 1% /run
tmpfs 7.7G 0 7.7G 0% /sys/fs/cgroup
/dev/mapper/vg00-root 9.6G 2.8G 6.3G 31% /
/dev/sda2 488M 143M 311M 32% /boot
/dev/mapper/vg00-home 960M 3.4M 890M 1% /home
/dev/sda1 128M 7.5M 121M 6% /boot/efi
/dev/mapper/vg00-opt 34G 3.2G 30G 10% /opt
/dev/mapper/vg00-var 9.6G 1.6G 7.6G 17% /var
/dev/mapper/vg00-var_log 3.8G 29M 3.6G 1% /var/log
/dev/mapper/vg00-var_log_audit 1.9G 13M 1.8G 1% /var/log/audit
tmpfs 7.7G 124K 7.7G 1% /tmp
tmpfs 7.7G 0 7.7G 0% /var/tmp
To get a clear understanding of disk layout execute lsblk to verify the disks. We observed that disks are there in the server.
[root@local-db-01 ~]# lsblk
NAME MAJ:MIN RM SIZE RO TYPE MOUNTPOINT
sdf 8:80 0 128G 0 disk
sdd 8:48 0 200G 0 disk
sdb 8:16 0 128G 0 disk
sdg 8:96 0 128G 0 disk
sde 8:64 0 128G 0 disk
sdc 8:32 0 128G 0 disk
sda 8:0 0 75G 0 disk
├─sda4 8:4 0 25.4G 0 part
│ ├─vg00-opt 252:4 0 35G 0 lvm /opt
│ └─vg00-var 252:3 0 10G 0 lvm /var
├─sda2 8:2 0 512M 0 part /boot
├─sda3 8:3 0 49G 0 part
│ ├─vg00-var_log 252:1 0 4G 0 lvm /var/log
│ ├─vg00-root 252:6 0 10G 0 lvm /
│ ├─vg00-opt 252:4 0 35G 0 lvm /opt
│ ├─vg00-var_tmp 252:2 0 1G 0 lvm
│ ├─vg00-var_log_audit 252:0 0 2G 0 lvm /var/log/audit
│ ├─vg00-swap 252:7 0 10G 0 lvm [SWAP]
│ ├─vg00-home 252:5 0 1G 0 lvm /home
│ └─vg00-var 252:3 0 10G 0 lvm /var
└─sda1 8:1 0 128M 0 part /boot/efi
sdh 8:112 0 128G 0 disk
To get more clarity execute ls -l /dev/mapper to validate the disks are there. Here we observed that lvm’s are missing from the server.
[root@local-db-01 ~]# ls -l /dev/mapper/
total 0
crw------- 1 root root 10, 236 Jul 24 09:19 control
lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 7 Jul 24 09:19 vg00-home -> ../dm-5
lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 7 Jul 24 09:19 vg00-opt -> ../dm-4
lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 7 Jul 24 09:19 vg00-root -> ../dm-6
lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 7 Jul 24 09:19 vg00-swap -> ../dm-7
lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 7 Jul 24 09:19 vg00-var -> ../dm-3
lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 7 Jul 24 09:19 vg00-var_log -> ../dm-1
lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 7 Jul 24 09:19 vg00-var_log_audit -> ../dm-0
lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 7 Jul 24 09:19 vg00-var_tmp -> ../dm-2
These LVM events are recorded in /var/log/messages. Looking at /var/log/messages helps us to get an understanding of the issue.
2023-07-24T09:12:26.985875-04:00 local-db-01 systemd: lvm2-lvmetad.socket failed to listen on sockets: No data available2023-07-24T09:12:26.985989-04:00 local-db-01 systemd: Failed to listen on LVM2 metadata daemon socket.2023-07-24T09:12:26.986117-04:00 local-db-01 systemd: Dependency failed for LVM2 PV scan on device 8:3.2023-07-24T09:12:26.986233-04:00 local-db-01 systemd: Job lvm2-pvscan@8:3.service/start failed with result 'dependency'.2023-07-24T09:12:26.986351-04:00 local-db-01 systemd: Dependency failed for LVM2 PV scan on device 8:4.2023-07-24T09:12:26.986485-04:00 local-db-01 systemd: Job lvm2-pvscan@8:4.service/start failed with result 'dependency'.2023-07-24T09:12:26.986604-04:00 local-db-01 systemd: Started D-Bus System Message Bus.2023-07-24T09:12:27.019241-04:00 local-db-01 dbus-daemon: Failed to start message bus: Failed to open "/etc/selinux/minimum/contexts/dbus_contexts": No such file or directory
As per var log messages, the last lines show the message for SELinux “2023-07-24T09:12:27.019241-04:00 local-db-01 dbus-daemon: Failed to start message bus: Failed to open “/etc/SELinux/minimum/contexts/dbus_contexts”: No such file or directory”
To have a clear understanding better to validate disk layout from the LVM level using pvs, vgs, and lvs commands.
[root@local-db-01 log]# pvs
WARNING: Failed to connect to lvmetad. Falling back to device scanning.
selabel_open failed: No such file or directory
selabel_open failed: No such file or directory
selabel_open failed: No such file or directory
selabel_open failed: No such file or directory
selabel_open failed: No such file or directory
selabel_open failed: No such file or directory
selabel_open failed: No such file or directory
selabel_open failed: No such file or directory
selabel_open failed: No such file or directory
PV VG Fmt Attr PSize PFree
/dev/sda3 vg00 lvm2 a-- <49 .00g="" 0="" 1.37g="" 25.37g="" a--="" bits_grp="" code="" data_grp="" dev="" g="" lvm2="" reco_grp="" sda4="" sdb="" sdc="" sdd="" sde="" sdf="" sdg="" sdh="" vg00="">
[root@local-db-01 log]# vgs
WARNING: Failed to connect to lvmetad. Falling back to device scanning.
selabel_open failed: No such file or directory
selabel_open failed: No such file or directory
selabel_open failed: No such file or directory
selabel_open failed: No such file or directory
selabel_open failed: No such file or directory
VG #PV #LV #SN Attr VSize VFree
BITS_GRP 1 1 0 wz--n- <200 .00g="" 0="" 1="" 255.99g="" 2="" 4="" 511.98g="" 74.37g="" 8="" code="" data_grp="" g="" reco_grp="" vg00="" wz--n-="">
[root@local-db-01 log]# lvs
WARNING: Failed to connect to lvmetad. Falling back to device scanning.
selabel_open failed: No such file or directory
selabel_open failed: No such file or directory
selabel_open failed: No such file or directory
selabel_open failed: No such file or directory
selabel_open failed: No such file or directory
LV VG Attr LSize Pool Origin Data% Meta% Move Log Cpy%Sync Convert
BITS BITS_GRP -wi------- 200.00g
DATA DATA_GRP -wi------- 511.98g
RECO RECO_GRP -wi------- 255.99g
home vg00 -wi-ao---- 1.00g
opt vg00 -wi-ao---- 35.00g
root vg00 -wi-ao---- 10.00g
swap vg00 -wi-ao---- 10.00g
var vg00 -wi-ao---- 10.00g
var_log vg00 -wi-ao---- 4.00g
var_log_audit vg00 -wi-ao---- 2.00g
var_tmp vg00 -wi-a----- 1.00g
This concludes that it’s a problem with mounting the disk.
We found a meta link note Oracle Linux: Network Service Fails to Start While SELinux Is Enabled (Doc ID 2508103.1) that shows the exact issue caused by the SELINUXTYPE=minimum parameter
Change the SELinux SELINUXTYPE parameter to targeted.
[root@local-db-01 /]# cat /etc/sysconfig/selinux
# This file controls the state of SELinux on the system.
# SELINUX= can take one of these three values:
# enforcing - SELinux security policy is enforced.
# permissive - SELinux prints warnings instead of enforcing.
# disabled - No SELinux policy is loaded.
SELINUX=permissive
# SELINUXTYPE= can take one of these two values:
# targeted - Targeted processes are protected,
# minimum - Modification of targeted policy. Only selected processes are protected.
# mls - Multi Level Security protection.
SELINUXTYPE=targeted
After changing the SELinux Parameter, I would recommend restarting the VM. Once the VM is up validate the disk layout using df -h
[opc@local-dev-db01 ~]$ df -h
Filesystem Size Used Avail Use% Mounted on
devtmpfs 7.7G 0 7.7G 0% /dev
tmpfs 7.7G 1.3M 7.7G 1% /dev/shm
tmpfs 7.7G 65M 7.7G 1% /run
tmpfs 7.7G 0 7.7G 0% /sys/fs/cgroup
/dev/mapper/vg00-root 9.6G 2.8G 6.3G 31% /
/dev/mapper/vg00-var 9.6G 1.8G 7.4G 20% /var
/dev/sda2 488M 143M 311M 32% /boot
/dev/mapper/vg00-home 960M 202M 692M 23% /home
/dev/mapper/vg00-var_log 3.8G 34M 3.6G 1% /var/log
/dev/mapper/vg00-var_log_audit 1.9G 43M 1.8G 3% /var/log/audit
/dev/mapper/vg00-opt 34G 6.1G 27G 19% /opt
/dev/sda1 128M 7.5M 121M 6% /boot/efi
tmpfs 7.7G 4.6M 7.7G 1% /var/tmp
tmpfs 7.7G 17M 7.7G 1% /tmp
/dev/mapper/RECO_GRP-RECO 251G 45G 194G 19% /u03
/dev/mapper/BITS_GRP-BITS 196G 23G 164G 13% /u01
/dev/mapper/DATA_GRP-DATA 503G 233G 245G 49% /u02
tmpfs 1.6G 0 1.6G 0% /run/user/101
tmpfs 1.6G 0 1.6G 0% /run/user/1000
[opc@local-dev-db01 ~]$