[Linux-cluster] 4U5 CSS/CMAN/fence quorum confusion

[Robert Clark]

On Mon, 2007-06-11 at 09:36 +0100, Robert Clark wrote:
> On Mon, 2007-06-11 at 08:53 +0100, Patrick Caulfield wrote:

> > Oops got that wrong way round - dlm-control probably IS being created in the
> > right place, it's magma that is looking for it in the wrong place. I don't have
> > the magma version numbers to hand, but I'm pretty sure this was fixed in CVS and
> > would be worried if it didn't get into U5.
> 
>   I trimmed some lines like the following from the strace:
> 
> 2990  22:20:29 stat64("/dev/misc/dlm-control", 0xf6f2c104) = -1 ENOENT (No such file or directory)
> 
> so, ccsd is looking in both locations, but you're quite right that I
> don't have the 51-dlm.rules file. I'll track that down and try again.

  Well, I was missing the dlm package. The system was still booting
occasionally without it. Now I've installed that, the device file is
being created in /dev/misc/dlm-control instead, but ccsd still spends
>10 seconds waiting for it to appear and fenced often fails to start as
a result.

  Is the delay here likely to simply be udev being slow?

	Robert