[Linux-cluster] cman startup issue

[gordan at bobich.net]

On Wed, 7 Nov 2007, Patrick Caulfield wrote:

>>>> I'm having a weird problem. I am using a shared GFS root file system,
>>>> and the same initrd image on all the machines. The cluster has 3
>>>> machines on it at the moment, and 1 refuses to join the cluster,
>>>> regardless of which order I bring them up in.
>>>>
>>>> When cman service is being started, it fails when starting cman:
>>>>
>>>> cman not started: Can't find local node name in cluster.conf
>>>> /usr/local/sbin/cman_tool: aisexec daemon didn't start
>>>>
>>>> If I try to run aisexec, I get:
>>>> aisexec: totemsrp.c:2867: memb_ring_id_store: Assertion `0' failed.
>>>>
>>>> Where should I be looking for causes of this? I double checked my
>>>> cluster.conf and the MAC addresses, IP addresses and interface names are
>>>> correct in each node's config.
>>>
>>> Check that the new node can write into /tmp - where it is trying to
>>> store the
>>> current ring-id.  It could be SElinux or perhaps the permissions on
>>> the file it
>>> is trying to create.
>>
>> That fixed the aisexec problem, but the "Can't find local node name in
>> cluster.conf" problem remains, and cman still won't start. :-(
>
> Well, it won't start if it can' find the local node name in cluster.conf ...
> Have you double-checked that the name(s) in cluster.conf match those on the
> ethernet interfaces ?

You mean as in:
<eth name="eth1" mac="my:ma:ca:dd:re:ss" ip="10.1.2.3" 
mask="255.255.255.0"/>
?

If so, then yes, I checked it about 10 times. That was the first thing I 
thought was wrong. :-(

Gordan