[Linux-cluster] cman kickout out nodes for no good reason

[Olivier Crête]

On Thu, 2006-06-04 at 12:34 -0400, Olivier Crête wrote:
> I have a strange problem where cman suddenly starts kicking out members
> of the cluster with "Inconsistent cluster view" when I join a new node
> (sometimes).  It takes a few minutes between each kicking. I'm using a
> snapshot for March 12th of the STABLE branch on 2.6.16. The cluster is
> in transition state at that point and I can't stop/start services or do
> anything else. It did not do that with a snapshot I took a few months
> ago.

Its still happening, the node that joins says "Transition master
unknown", while all of the other nodes who the master is, then the
master gets kicked out. Then a new master is selected, all of the nodes
seem to know who the master is, but refuse to act on it. After a while,
the new master is kicked out and the process restarts. I guess its
related to the changes with the timestamps to prevent master desync, I
dont see any other recent change that could have caused it.

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Olivier Crête
ocrete at max-t.com
Maximum Throughput Inc.