Ok, I figured it out, and just want to pass the word along to anyone else who may pick up this issue in the future. The deal with the system hanging for 3 minutes trying to start up ccsd is the same problem as when the system hung for 3 minutes trying to start up system-config-cluster. The problem is with the magma-plugins, not suprisingly. I noticed that while the hang was occuring, magma_tool was running. A quick man on magma_tool showed that it allowed you to list, enable, and disable magma-plugins. When I ran magma_tool, it showed magma_gulm.so and magma_sm.so both as being [OK]. Since I'm since I'm using CMAN and not GULM, I just did:
<br><br>magma_tool disable magma_glum.so<br><br>and now ccsd and cman services both start as they should.<br><br>Also, now that cman is running, system-config-cluster recognizes that my machine is part of the cluster, and allows the admin pane.
<br><br>The problem with the dropdown panes being empty is totally unrelated to the problem with magma_plugins. I am accessing my server through a remote ssh connection with X forwarding. The forwarding works fine for the windows, but didn't work for the dropdown menus. I switched from using ssh -X to ssh -Y, and the problem went away.
<br><br>Hope this is of help to someone.<br><br><div><span class="gmail_quote">On 7/18/06, <b class="gmail_sendername">Greg Rodenhiser</b> <<a href="mailto:grodenhi@gmail.com">grodenhi@gmail.com</a>> wrote:</span><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;">
<div>I had a similar problem... Ensure that each node has an entry in /etc/hosts for all the other nodes in the cluster (including itself). And most importantly, ensure (in /etc/hosts) that the <a href="http://127.0.0.1" title="http://127.0.0.1" target="_blank" onclick="return top.js.OpenExtLink(window,event,this)">
127.0.0.1
</a> line does NOT have a listing containing the host name of the host, it should be listed as localhost localhost.localdomain ONLY!!. After you make changes the easiest is to simply reboot.<br><br><div></div><div><span class="e" id="q_10c81bcf6142f335_1">
<span class="gmail_quote">
On 7/17/06, <b class="gmail_sendername">Stephen Gilbert</b> <<a href="mailto:linuxelf@gmail.com" title="mailto:linuxelf@gmail.com" target="_blank" onclick="return top.js.OpenExtLink(window,event,this)">linuxelf@gmail.com
</a>> wrote:</span></span></div><div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;"></blockquote></div><div><span class="e" id="q_10c81bcf6142f335_3">
<div>We're in the process of building a small, 2-node cluster using RedHat Enterprise 4 and RedHat Cluster Suite. The servers we are using are 64bit Quad CPU Dells. Here is the issue we are having.<br><br>When I launch system-config-cluster, I can build an initial cluster configuration. However, no matter what I enter in for Node Name, whenever I relaunch system-config-cluster, it says that I'm not part of a cluster, so I can't get the management pane. I've tried using my IP address, my hostname, and my fully qualified hostname. All have the same symptom.
<br><br>I try to start the service for ccsd, and it hangs for a long time, then succeeds.<br><br>
<p style="margin-bottom: 0in;">[root@kpcobs2sdsit init.d]# time ./ccsd
start<br>Starting ccsd:
[ OK ]</p>
<p style="margin-bottom: 0in;">real 3m9.990s<br>user 0m36.147s<br>sys 2m32.848s</p>
<br clear="all">When I try to start cman (I'm going to be using dlm, not gulm), I just get a FAILED message. Nothing is written to /var/log/messages to explain why it failed.<br><br>Now, here's another thing. In order to get ccsd to start, I had to install the RPM for gulm, because ccsd requires the magma-plugins package, which requires gulm. No problem, it's installed now. Suddenly, whenI go into system-config-cluster, it hangs for several minutes before telling me that I'm not part of a cluster. And now, I cannot configure a new cluster, because all of the drop-down menus (such as the list of available nodes to add to a failover domain) are empty. I've got an entry in Cluster Nodes, but it does not appear in the list under Failover Domains any more. As a test, I uninstalled the magma-plugins package, and the list now displays as it should, but of course, ccsd will not start.
<br><br>Any ideas on where I screwed up?<br></div><div><span><br>-- <br>Stephen Gilbert<br>RHCE - 804006953620491
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