[Linux-cluster] Fenced node never reboots properly

[Jeroen van den Horn]

I'm using fence_vmware which I downloaded from some CVS repository. Good 
to hear that that is the issue - I'll take a look at the source and see 
whether the VMWare API support some sort of 'hard reset'.

Jeroen

Lon Hohberger wrote:
> On Thu, Mar 29, 2007 at 10:04:00AM +0200, Jeroen van den Horn wrote:
>   
>> However during shutdown node 2 executes /etc/rc6.d/S31umountnfs (it's a 
>> Debian system) which also attempts to unmount the GFS disk - result: 
>> kernel OOPS. The system continues shutdown until it says 'Will now 
>> restart.' but that's the end of it. I've tried setting the 
>> /proc/sys/kernel/panic and added 'panic=5' to the kernel boot options 
>> but to no avail.
>>
>> I'm really at a loss here - does anybody have any suggestions on how to 
>> solve this problem?
>>     
>
> Yes, it's supposed to be killed (immediately) when fenced, not
> gracefully attempting to shut down.  What fencing agent are you using?
> It sounds like there's a bug.
>
> -- Lon
>
>   

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