10gR2 CRS case study: CRS would not start after reboot – stuck at /etc/init.d/init.cssd startcheck
Preface
I had recently done a 10gR2 CRS installation on SuSE linux 9.3 (2.6.5.7-244 kernel) and noticed that after a reboot of the RAC nodes, the CRS would not come up!
The CSS daemon was stuck at the /etc/init.d/init.cssd startcheck command:
raclinux1:/tmp # ps -ef | grep cssroot 6929 1 0 13:56 ? 00:00:00 /bin/sh /etc/init.d/init.cssd fatalroot [...]