How to fix the Oracle error CRS-01717: The CSS daemon has detected a voting file add during startup and is waiting for the add to complete; Details at string in string?

In this post, you’ll learn more about the Oracle ErrorCRS-01717: The CSS daemon has detected a voting file add during startup and is waiting for the add to complete; Details at string in string with the details on why you receive this error and the possible solution to fix it.

Oracle Error Description

CRS-01717: The CSS daemon has detected a voting file add during startup and is waiting for the add to complete; Details at string in string

Reason for the Error CRS-01717: The CSS daemon has detected a voting file add during startup and is waiting for the add to complete; Details at string in string

Cause: A voting file add started on another node is in progress while this CSS daemon is starting. To avoid the potential for data corruption, the CSS daemon on this node must wait for the add to complete.

How to fix the Error CRS-01717: The CSS daemon has detected a voting file add during startup and is waiting for the add to complete; Details at string in string ?

You can fix this error in Oracle by following the below steps

Action: This is normally a temporary condition that is automatically resolved. If the clusterware stack cannot start on any node, this condition may be corrected by starting the clusterware stack in exclusive mode using ‘crsctl start crs -excl’ followed by ‘crsctl stop crs’ on one node. This will automatically correct the condition and the clusterware can be started normally on all nodes.