[DRBD-user] DRBD 8.3.1: "1 is not a block device!" on one machine, not on the other

Lars Ellenberg lars.ellenberg at linbit.com
Tue May 19 10:49:12 CEST 2009

Note: "permalinks" may not be as permanent as we would like,
direct links of old sources may well be a few messages off.


On Mon, May 18, 2009 at 06:27:03PM +0000, NM wrote:
> This is *really* weird:
> 
> I have two machines in a RedHat cluster sync'd with drbd. They're almost 
> identical, have the same version of drbd, kernel and config file, and one 
> of them starts drbd's service just fine, but the other one complains 
> thusly: 
> 
> ==8<---
> [root at mac2 ~]# service drbd start
> Starting DRBD resources: [ d(pg1) 1 is not a block device!
> 
> [pg1] cmd /sbin/drbdsetup 1 disk /dev/Data/pgdrbd1 /dev/Data/pgdrbd1 
> internal --set-defaults --create-device --on-io-error=detach  failed - 
> continuing!
>  
> s(pg1) 1 is not a block device!
> 
> [pg1] cmd /sbin/drbdsetup 1 syncer --set-defaults --create-device --
> verify-alg=md5 --rate=100M  failed - continuing!
>  
> n(pg1) 1 is not a block device!
> 
> [pg1] cmd /sbin/drbdsetup 1 net 172.21.5.17:7789 172.21.5.44:7789 C --set-
> defaults --create-device --shared-secret=xxx --cram-hmac-alg=sha1  failed 
> - continuing!
>  
> ]1 is not a block device!
> .
> ==8<---
> 

I do have a stupid suspicion:

ls -l /1

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