[Linux-HA] cannot start heartbeat
Dejan Muhamedagic
dejanmm at fastmail.fm
Mon Dec 17 16:00:56 MST 2007
Hi,
On Mon, Dec 17, 2007 at 09:24:44AM -0800, Radu Handorean wrote:
> Hi Dejan and others,
>
> I do not have that hostcache file at all. You said I could
> ignore/delete it, but I don't have it to begin with (wince I
> can ignore/delete it it appears not having it is not such a big
> deal, but then why does it even exist, I wonder). Anyway,
> related to the nodes section you said I should empty, that
> section seems to list the nodes in the cluster and that
> information seems to be cluster-specific, not host-specific
> (the same in both files - one on each of my 2 nodes). If I
> just erase it, wouldn't I be killing useful information (which,
> again, seems to be the same on all nodes)?
The node information is going to be auto-generated.
> But generally speaking yes, this is the kind of info I am
> looking for (ha.cf is indeed node-specific and thus I needs to
> handle it separately). Thanks for the advice. Please let me
> know if there's anything else you can think of. I need to
> operate at file level (I won't edit files in my procedure, I
> will handle each file as a whole).
Don't forget to remove the .sig files too.
Thanks,
Dejan
>
> Thanks!
>
> ----- Original Message ----
> From: Dejan Muhamedagic <dejanmm at fastmail.fm>
> To: General Linux-HA mailing list <linux-ha at lists.linux-ha.org>
> Sent: Saturday, December 15, 2007 10:06:41 AM
> Subject: Re: [Linux-HA] cannot start heartbeat
>
>
> Hi,
>
> On Fri, Dec 14, 2007 at 03:53:06PM -0800, Radu Handorean wrote:
> > 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.
>
> /etc/ha.d/ha.cf lists hostname (uname -n) and, in case you run
> crm (v2 config), /var/lib/heartbeat/crm/cib.xml and
> /var/lib/heartbeat/crm/hostcache. The hostcache you can erase,
> but the CIB you'll have to edit. The easiest is to empty the
> nodes section.
>
> Thanks,
>
> Dejan
>
> >
> > Any (other) ideas?
> >
> > Thanks!
> >
> >
> >
> >
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