[Linux-cluster] GFS + DRBD Problems

[Marc Grimme]

On Tuesday 04 March 2008 12:11:24 gordan at bobich.net wrote:
> On Tue, 4 Mar 2008, Marc Grimme wrote:
> >>>>> <fenceackserver user    = "root"
> >>>>>                 passwd  = "password"
> >>>>> />
> >>>>
> >>>> [...]
> >>>>
> >>>>> Now you could do a telnet on the hung node on port 12242 login and
> >>>>> should automatically see, if it is in manual fencing state or not.
> >>>>
> >>>> Hmm, this doesn't seem to be responding. Is there a separate package
> >>>> that needs to be installed to add this feature? I've not seen mkinitrd
> >>>> moan about missing files, so I just assumed it was all there.
> >>>
> >>> Check for comoonics-bootimage-fenceacksv that's the software that must
> >>> be installed and rebuild an initrd.
> >>
> >> OK. Is there anything else that needs to be tone to enable it, or will
> >> it "just work" if it is specified, as above, in cluster.conf?
> >
> > It should. You will be able to start/stop it with the
> > /etc/init.d/fenceacksv initscript. Then try to telnet and type help. It
> > SHOULD tell you all you need.
>
> Ah, OK, that would be the problem, then. I disabled the init script in the
> default run level. I thought it would get started up by the initrd in the
> host root, not by the init script in the guest root.
>
> It doesn't seem to start up correctly, though. It says "OK", but I cannot
> see it running afterwards, and the machine isn't responding on port 12242
> on any of it's 3 interfaces (cluster, external, loopback).
Hmm what does your cluster.conf say?
>
> One other thing I noticed is that my clock seems to be consistently 5
> hours out until the first ntpd sync. Could this be related? Could it be
> that the clock jump of this magnitude is confusing dlm?
Oh yes. I had this problem very recently. This yields a very odd behaviour as 
the fist node to join the cluster got frozen (no cluster process running any 
more) and only the second one comes up.

Marc.
>
> Gordan
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