[Linux-HA] Autofailback problem

[Alan Robertson]

Colin Bruce wrote:
> Dear All,
> 
> I seem to have a similar problem to the one posted by Nicolas Schmitz on
> the 2nd of June.
> 
> I have set up heartbeat version 1.2.2 on two test systems. I have one
> service address (192.168.255.7). I have no services - all I am doing is
> pinging that address for the moment. The master is called lnxtst2 and the
> slave lnxtst3. If I ping the service address I get a response. If I then
> shutdown the master cleanly the service address moves to the slave and the
> pings continue. If I start the master again the service address moves back
> to the master as we would expect. However, it is still on the slave as well.
> If I type IPaddr 192.168.255.7 stop on the slave it stops perfectly well so
> the question is how come it works if typed by hand but doesn't work if run
> from Heartbeat. Actually, the real question is what might I have done wrong.
> 
> Here is a section from the logfile as the master tries to take back the
> resource. This is taken from the slave. The log file on the master doesn't
> show any errors.
> 
> heartbeat: 2004/06/06_18:49:50 info: Heartbeat restart on node lnxtst2
> heartbeat: 2004/06/06_18:49:50 info: Link lnxtst2:eth0 up.
> heartbeat: 2004/06/06_18:49:50 info: Status update for node lnxtst2: status up
> heartbeat: 2004/06/06_18:49:50 info: Running /usr/local/packages/heartbeat-1.2.2/etc/ha.d/rc.d/status status
> heartbeat: 2004/06/06_18:51:50 WARN: 1 lost packet(s) for [lnxtst2] [61:63]
> heartbeat: 2004/06/06_18:51:50 info: Status update for node lnxtst2: status active
> heartbeat: 2004/06/06_18:51:50 info: No pkts missing from lnxtst2!
> heartbeat: 2004/06/06_18:51:50 info: Running /usr/local/packages/heartbeat-1.2.2/etc/ha.d/rc.d/status status
> heartbeat: 2004/06/06_18:51:51 ERROR: Both machines own our resources!
> heartbeat: 2004/06/06_18:51:51 info: remote resource transition completed.
> heartbeat: 2004/06/06_18:51:51 ERROR: Both machines own our resources!
> heartbeat: 2004/06/06_18:51:51 ERROR: Both machines own foreign resources!
> heartbeat: 2004/06/06_18:51:51 info: lnxtst3 wants to go standby [foreign]
> heartbeat: 2004/06/06_18:51:51 ERROR: Both machines own our resources!
> heartbeat: 2004/06/06_18:51:51 ERROR: Both machines own foreign resources!
> heartbeat: 2004/06/06_18:52:02 WARN: No reply to standby request.  Standby request cancelled.
> heartbeat: 2004/06/06_18:52:02 ERROR: Both machines own our resources!
> heartbeat: 2004/06/06_18:52:02 ERROR: Both machines own foreign resources!
> 
> The conf files are more or less as distributed. We have added entries to
> ha.cf for the nodes and a line in haresources for the service address.
> 
> In ha.cf, auto_failback is set to on and the node lines are
> 
> node    lnxtst2
> node    lnxtst3
> 
> In haresources the only line is
> 
> lnxtst2     192.168.255.7

Is this address by chance the same as the main address of the network 
interface on this machine?

That is, do you have this configured in Linux and in heartbeat both?

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