Please check the following:
1)You are installing the Oracle9i patch set 9.2.0.4.0 on an Oracle Real Applications Clusters environment,then you must install the Oracle Universal Installer 2.2.0.18.0 on all nodes on
the cluster before installing the patch set.
2) If the Oracle Universal Installer was installed with the base release of Oracle9i, then create the following symbolic link
% cd $ORACLE_BASE/oui/bin/linux
% ln -s libclntsh.so.9.0 libclntsh.so
Also check the size of the libclntsh.so.9.0 on both nodes.
3) Check the size of the file svrm.jar. For example:
$ORACLE_HOME/jlib
-rw-r--r-- 1386814 Aug 4 04:05 srvm.jar
4) Make sure you are using Oracle Universal Installer 2.2.0.18.0. from the ORACLE_HOME/oui
directory.
5) Make sure JRE 1.4.2 is available on your system.
6) Check if ORACM on the clusters are running.
7) Check if lsnodes can be executed without any problem
When the above is correct, you can press the continue button instead of cancel, and you will able
to patch your RAC environment without any problem.

SQL> startup nomount

pfile="/u01/app/oracle/admin/orc/scripts/init.ora";
ORA-00444: background process "LMD0" failed while starting
ORA-07446: sdnfy: bad value '' for parameter .

Linux Itanium

How to install Oracle RDBMS version 9.2.0.8

To install 9.2.0.2 and then 9.2.0.8 on Linux Itanium, do the following :
[1]. Set the environment variable LD_ASSUME_KERNEL=2.4.19

[2]. Download Patch 5390952 and run the supplied OUI to install Montecito JDK and JRE into the new 9.2 home

• Unzip the patch
• Start OUI from Patch 5390952 and install JDK into the new 9.2 home
• Start OUI from Patch 5390952 and install JRE into the new 9.2 home
• Download the 9.2.0.2 RDBMS CD's to local disk - the CD's should be unzipped at the same directory level and be called "Disk1", "Disk2" etc.
• Edit <path>/Disk1/install/linux/oraparam.ini and change JRE_LOCATION to point to $ORACLE_HOME/jre/1.4.2

[3]. Install 9.2.0.2 into the new 9.2 home by running OUI (./runInstaller) from <path>/Disk1

[4]. At the root.sh stage, do the following before running root.sh :

• Change directory to the ORACLE_HOME
• Run the command "rm JRE" to remove the symbolic link
• Run the command "ln -s $ORACLE_HOME/jre/1.4.2 JRE" to link the JRE to the Montecito JRE installed in step 2
• Run the commands "cd $ORACLE_HOME/jre/1.4.2/bin" and then the command "ln -s java jre"

[5]. Run root.sh

[6]. Start OUI from the 9.2.0.8 patchset (Patch 4547809) with jreLoc option

./runInstaller -jreLoc $ORACLE_HOME/JRE/

rac2->ls
oraparam.ini  runInstaller  runInstaller.sh
rac2->pwd
/oracd/9204/Disk1/install/linux
rac2->vi oraparam.ini

[Oracle]
DISTRIBUTION=TRUE
SOURCE=../../stage/products.jar
LICENSE_LOCATION=
#JRE_LOCATION=../../stage/Components/oracle.swd.jre/1.4.1.0.0/1/DataFiles/Expanded/j2sdk1.4.1
JRE_LOCATION=/u01/app/oracle/product/9.2.0/db_1/jre/1.4.2
OUI_LOCATION=../../stage/Components/oracle.swd.oui/2.2.0.18.0/1/DataFiles/Expanded
JRE_MEMORY_OPTIONS=" -mx200m"
DEFAULT_HOME_LOCATION=
DEFAULT_HOME_NAME=OUIHome
NO_BROWSE=/net
NLS_ENABLED=TRUE
BOOTSTRAP=FALSE
OUI_VERSION=2.2.0.18.0

$ dbca

/u01/app/oracle/product/9.2.0/db_1/bin/dbca: line 118: 18712 Segmentation fault      $JRE_DIR/bin/jre -DORACLE_HOME=$OH -DJDBC_PROTOCOL=thin -mx64m -classpath $CLASSPATH oracle.sysman.assistants.dbca.Dbca $ARGUMENTS

rac2->cd $ORACLE_HOME/JRE
rac2->cd bin
rac2->ls -l jre
lrwxrwxrwx  1 oracle oinstall 34 Oct  8 15:28 jre -> /u01/app/oracle/jre/1.3.1/bin/java
rac2->mv jre jre.old
rac2->ln -s /u01/app/oracle/product/9.2.0/db_1/jre/1.4.2/bin/java ./jre
rac2->ls -l jre*
lrwxrwxrwx  1 oracle oinstall 53 Oct  9 10:49 jre -> /u01/app/oracle/product/9.2.0/db_1/jre/1.4.2/bin/java
lrwxrwxrwx  1 oracle oinstall 34 Oct  8 15:28 jre.old -> /u01/app/oracle/jre/1.3.1/bin/java