[DRBD-user] How to become primary when the other node gets dead?

[Stephan Rattai]

Am Mittwoch, 13. Oktober 2004 16:23 schrieb Richard NAGY:
> Hello all,
>
> I'm facing a problem with drbd and heartbeat. When the master node is
> powered off, the secondary node stays in a secondary state. It does not
> want to become primary. It says that the other pear is primary, but it
> is dead!
>
> I'm using drbd (0.7.2 from source) and heartbeat (1.2.0 from RPM) works

You may want to upgrade to drbd 0.7.5 first. 

But the syslog entries for drbd would be more helpful. Heartbeat seems to be 
doing everything right, it fires its scripts and fails. What does your 
drbd.conf look like ? Timeout ?