[DRBD-user] drbd r0 fails to start (drbd newbie)

Lars Ellenberg lars.ellenberg at linbit.com
Mon Jan 14 07:58:35 CET 2008

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On Sun, Jan 13, 2008 at 09:41:54PM -0500, thomas62186218 at aol.com wrote:
> Hi all,
> 
> I am a new user of drbd 8.0.4 on SLES 10 SP1 with EVMS 2.5.5, and I am 
> running into what is probably a basic issue but I am missing what the 
> cause might be:
> 
> ---------------------------
> [root@ ~]# /etc/init.d/drbd start
> Starting DRBD resources:    [ d0 Failure: (114) Lower device is already 
> claimed. This usually means it is mounted.
> 
> cmd /sbin/drbdsetup /dev/drbd0 disk /dev/evms/pool1vol1 
> /dev/evms/pool1vol1 internal --set-defaults --create-device  failed - 
> continuing!
> 
> n0 ].
> ---------------------------
> 
> Here is my drbd.conf. Thank you in advance for any guidance!
> 
> ---------------------------
> [root@ /etc]# cat drbd.conf
> resource r0 {
>        protocol C;
>        handlers {
>                 #pri-on-incon-degr "echo 'Node is primary, degraded and 
> has incosistent data' ";
>                 #pri-lost-after-sb "echo 'node is currently primary, 
> but lost the after spllit brain auto recovery procedure' ";
>                 #outdate-peer "/usr/lib/drbd/outdate-peer.sh on 
> .orionfirst 192.168.1.109 on orionsecond. 192.168.1.108";
>        }
>        startup {
>                wfc-timeout     1;
>        }
>        disk {
>        }
>        net {
>                timeout 60;
>                connect-int     10;
>                ping-int        10;
>                after-sb-1pri   disconnect;
>        }
>        syncer {
>                rate    10M;
>                al-extents      257;
>        }
> 
>        on .orionfirst {
>                device      /dev/drbd0;
>                disk        /dev/evms/pool1vol1;

did you mean pool1vol1b?
if that thing is "partitioned",
you cannot claim the whole device.

why do you node names include leading/trailing dots?

>                address     192.168.1.109:7788;
>                meta-disk   internal;
>        }
> 
>        on orionsecond. {
>                device      /dev/drbd0;
>                disk        /dev/evms/pool1vol1b;
>                address     192.168.1.108:7788;
>                meta-disk   internal;
>        }
> }

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