<html> <head> <meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=us-ascii"> <meta name="Generator" content="Microsoft Exchange Server">  <style></style> </head> <body> <font face="Calibri, sans-serif" size="2"> <div>Hi,</div> <div> </div> <div>I configured a cluster of 2 RHEL6 nodes. </div> <div>The cluster has only one HA service defined.</div> <div><font face="Times New Roman, serif"> </font></div> <div>I have a problem with rgmanager getting stuck on shutdown when certain set of conditions are met. The details follow.</div> <div><font face="Times New Roman, serif"> </font></div> <div>1.</div> <div>If I execute “shutdown –h now” on the node that is *<b>not</b>* running the HA service then the shutdown process gets stuck with the last message in the /var/log/messages being:</div> <div><font face="Times New Roman, serif"> </font></div> <div>‘date’ my_node_name rgmanager[PID#]: Shutting down</div> <div><font face="Times New Roman, serif"> </font></div> <div>The shutdown never completes, until I send terminate signal to the two instances of the rgmanager process. Then shutdown completes normally.</div> <div><font face="Times New Roman, serif"> </font></div> <div>2.</div> <div>By comparison, if I execute “shutdown –h now” on a node that *<b>is</b>* running the HA service, then shutdown proceeds normally.</div> <div> </div> <div>3.</div> <div>The problem walks with the absence of the service i.e. each of the two nodes has the problem when the service is *<b>not</b>* running on it and does not have the problem when the service *<b>is</b>* running on it.</div> <div><font face="Times New Roman, serif"> </font></div> <div>4.</div> <div>I have set the following debug level in the cluster.conf:</div> <div> </div> <div><logging></div> <div> <logging_daemon debug=”on” name=”rgmanager”/></div> <div></logging></div> <div> </div> <div>But I am not getting any additional messages when the rgmanager is stuck during shutdown.</div> <div><font face="Times New Roman, serif"> </font></div> <div>Questions:</div> <div>Is this a known problem?</div> <div>How can I avoid it short of having some dummy service running on each node, as a workaround?</div> <div> </div> <div>Thanks and regards,</div> <div> </div> <div>Chris Jankowski</div> <div><font face="Times New Roman, serif"> </font></div> <div><font face="Times New Roman, serif"> </font></div> <div><font face="Times New Roman, serif"> </font></div> <div><font face="Times New Roman, serif"> </font></div> </font> </body> </html>