[Linux-HA] cannot start heartbeat

[Radu Handorean]

Hi all,

When my computer boots heartbeat does not start automatically for some reason. I try to start it manually and here's what happens:

16:16:42 root at hilary [~]> ps -A | grep heart
16:16:49 root at hilary [~]> /etc/init.d/heartbeat start
Starting High-Availability serviceslogd is already running
heartbeat[4750]: 2007/12/14_16:16:58 info: Version 2 support: true
heartbeat[4750]: 2007/12/14_16:16:58 info: Enabling logging daemon 
heartbeat[4750]: 2007/12/14_16:16:58 info: logfile and debug file are those specified in logd config file (default /etc/logd.cf)
heartbeat[4750]: 2007/12/14_16:16:58 WARN: Core dumps could be lost if multiple dumps occur
heartbeat[4750]: 2007/12/14_16:16:58 WARN: Consider setting /proc/sys/kernel/core_uses_pid (or equivalent) to 1 for maximum supportability
heartbeat[4750]: 2007/12/14_16:16:59 info: **************************
heartbeat[4750]: 2007/12/14_16:16:59 info: Configuration validated. Starting heartbeat 2.0.8
                                                                      done
16:16:59 root at hilary [~]> ps -A | grep heart         
16:17:06 root at hilary [~]> /etc/init.d/heartbeat status
Checking for High-Availability services                               dead
16:51:18 root at hilary [~]> 

(the time difference above is not how long it took to give me an answer, I just came back later with that command)


Which is pretty much "nothing happens". I am running SUSE 10.2. What makes this a bit different than the usual setup is how I installed this machine. I made a tarball from another machine, tar-ing "everything". I'll skip the details (if there's anything you think it's important ask me and I'll explain it) but I used this tarball on another machine to set up the drive. Again, this is super high-level and superficial explanation but after having taken care of a whole bunch of detail, it works. I can boot my Linux, start X, do everything I want except start heartbeat.

Interestingly, if I use the tarball to restore the machine I created it from (unpack it on another partition and boot off of this new partition - again details related to the boot loader and other such are skipped here), it works just fine. It seems it's only when I use the tarball on another machine. To make everything else work I had to deal with files that contain host-specific info, such as mac addresses. I wonder if HA has any such files I need to handle separately.


Any (other) ideas?

Thanks!



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