PRCR-1065: Failed to stop resource ora.asm

Error PRCR-1065 and CRS-2529 can be returned while stopping the ASM using srvctl command on Grid Infrastructure 11.2 and above as can be seen in the following.

[grid@salman1 ~]$ srvctl stop asm PRCR-1065 : Failed to stop resource ora.asm CRS-2529: Unable to act on 'ora.asm' because that would require stopping or relocating 'ora.CRS.dg', but the force option was not specified

Reason of Error
The reason for this error is that starting from 11.2 Grid Infrastructure, ASM diskgroups are registered with CRS as a resource. Since these diskgroup resources are dependent on ASM, hence you can’t stop ASM resource without stopping diskgroup resources first; or alternatively you can use “–f” option with "srvctl stop asm" command to stop ASM regardless of its dependent resources (i.e. diskgroups). In this example, ora.CRS.dg and ora.DATA.dg are my diskgroup resources for the diskgroup CRS and DATA which hindered stopping the ASM using srvctl command. In the following you can see the correct method/sequence of stopping the ASM.

[grid@salman1 ~]$ crsctl status res –t -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Name           Target  State        Server                   State details -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Local Resources -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- ora.CRS.dg                ONLINE  ONLINE       salman1                  STABLE ora.DATA.dg                ONLINE  ONLINE       salman1                  STABLE ora.LISTENER.lsnr                ONLINE  ONLINE       salman1                  STABLE ora.asm                ONLINE  ONLINE       salman1                  Started,STABLE ora.ons                OFFLINE OFFLINE      salman1                  STABLE -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Cluster Resources -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- ora.cdb.db       1        OFFLINE OFFLINE                               Instance Shutdown, STABLE                                                              ora.cssd       1        ONLINE  ONLINE       salman1                  STABLE ora.diskmon       1        OFFLINE OFFLINE                               STABLE ora.evmd       1        ONLINE  ONLINE       salman1                  STABLE -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- [grid@salman1 ~]$ srvctl stop asm PRCR-1065 : Failed to stop resource ora.asm CRS-2529: Unable to act on 'ora.asm' because that would require stopping or relocating 'ora.CRS.dg', but the force option was not specified

Now you will see that if we stop diskgroup resources before stopping the ASM, there will be no error while stopping ASM later.

[grid@salman1 ~]$ srvctl stop diskgroup -g crs [grid@salman1 ~]$ srvctl stop diskgroup -g data [grid@salman1 ~]$ srvctl stop asm [grid@salman1 ~]$ crsctl stat res -t -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Name           Target  State        Server                   State details -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Local Resources -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- ora.CRS.dg                OFFLINE OFFLINE      salman1                  STABLE ora.DATA.dg                OFFLINE OFFLINE      salman1                  STABLE ora.LISTENER.lsnr                ONLINE  ONLINE       salman1                  STABLE ora.asm                OFFLINE OFFLINE      salman1                  Instance Shutdown,ST                                                              ABLE ora.ons                OFFLINE OFFLINE      salman1                  STABLE -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Cluster Resources -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- ora.cdb.db       1        OFFLINE OFFLINE                               Instance Shutdown,ST                                                              ABLE ora.cssd       1        ONLINE  ONLINE       salman1                  STABLE ora.diskmon       1        OFFLINE OFFLINE                               STABLE ora.evmd       1        ONLINE  ONLINE       salman1                  STABLE -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- [grid@salman1 ~]$