dbca doesn’t list diskgroups
This is an Exadata machine running GI version 18.3.0.0.180717 and DB version 12.1.0.2.180717. On one of the DB nodes while running dbca, it doesn’t list the diskgroups. it works fine on the other node. I cheked the dbca trace and found that the kfod command was failing. I tried to run it manually and got the same error: [oracle@exadb01 ~]$ /u01/app/18.0.0.0/grid/bin/kfod op=groups verbose=true KFOD-00300: OCI error [-1] [OCI error] [Could not fetch details] [-105777048] KFOD-00105: Could not open pfile 'init@.ora' [oracle@exadb01 ~]$ I ran it with strace then: ...