Oracle Clusterware installation fails on Linux

when running root.sh, the following error is returned:

Failed to upgrade Oracle Cluster Registry configuration

Solution:

Note:465001.1
If using any form of multipathing (EMC PowerPath, MPIO, device-mapper-multipath, etc.) to access Clusterware devices, be sure to obtain and apply Oracle 10.2.0 CRS patch for Bug 4679769 when installing the Oracle Clusterware (Step 5).


After applying the patch, installation was successful.