[Linux-cluster] Severe problems with 64-bit RHCS on RHEL5.1

[gordan at bobich.net]

On Thu, 17 Apr 2008, Harri Päiväniemi wrote:

> I just resolved 1 thing:
>
> When node a & b are down (cluster daemons) and I start node a, it hangs
> 5 minutes in fencing becouse becouse...
>
> man fence_tool says:
>
> ""Before  joining or leaving the fence domain, fence_tool waits for the
> cluster be in a quorate state""
>
> And in qdisk man- page it's said:
>
> ""CMAN  must  be running before the qdisk program can operate in full
> capacity.  If CMAN is not running, qdisk will wait for it."
>
> I started in this order: cman-qdiskd-rgmanager". In this case it hangs
> because fence is waiting cluster to be quorate and it's not gonna be
> because qdisk is not yet running ;)
>
> Jihaa - so one problem solved. No I can start cluster node at a time.

So - your config was not correct after all? ;)

Gordan