[DRBD-user] drbd device not ready on reboot

Lars Ellenberg lars.ellenberg at linbit.com
Fri Jan 23 17:26:40 CET 2009

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On Fri, Jan 23, 2009 at 02:46:10PM +0100, Michael Grant wrote:
> I'm in the process of building my cluster.  I have one node up named
> a.example.org.  However, when I boot this machine (a), the boot
> process blocks with this message:
> 
>  DRBD's startup script waits for the peer node(s) to appear.
>  - In case this node was already a degraded cluster before the
>    reboot the timeout is 120 seconds. [degr-wfc-timeout]
>  - If the peer was available before the reboot the timeout will
>    expire after 0 seconds. [wfc-timeout]
>    (These values are for resource 'vm1-root'; 0 sec -> wait forever)
>  To abort waiting enter 'yes' [  340]:
> 
> In my case, the peer (I assume b is the peer) has never been
> available.  Therefore, this node should have been a degraded cluster
> before the reboot, hence, the timeout should be 120 seconds, but the
> counter keeps on ticking and ticking, so it seems there's a problem
> here.
> 
> Did I do something wrong?  How do I convince a that it is a degraded
> cluster and to come up with my drbd devices ready?

misconception about when degr-wfc-timeout is used.
please read
http://thread.gmane.org/gmane.linux.network.drbd/15849/focus=15854

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