8. ohasd.bin is able to access log file location: CRS-4124: Oracle High Availability Services startup failed. CRS-4000: Command Start failed, or completed with errors. OS messages/syslog shows: Feb 20 10:47:08 racnode1 OHASD[9566]: OHASD exiting; Directory /ocw/grid/log/racnode1/oh...
If you don’t see above message, the other possibility is syslogd(/usr/sbin/syslogd) is not fully up. Grid may fail to come up in that case as well. This may not apply to AIX. To find out whether OS is able to execute S96ohasd while node is coming up, modify ohasd: From: case...