echo $ORACLE_HOME /u01/app/11.2.0/grid echo $PATH /usr/kerberos/bin:/usr/local/bin:/bin:/usr/bin:/home/grid/bin:/u01/app/11.2.0/grid/bin crsctl query crs releaseversion Oracle High Availability Services release version on the local node is [11.2.0.2.0] ##### crsctl query crs softwareversion Oracle Cluster Registry initialization failed accessing Oracle Cluster Registry device: PROC-26: Error while accessing the physical storage ORA-29701: unable to connect to Cluster Synchronization Service ########## echo $ORACLE_SID +ASM1 ######## As I stated earlier, I used oracle documentation to downgrade to 11.2.0.2 and physically removed the file in 11.2.3