[DRBD-user] 0: State change failed: (-12) Device is held open by someone

Felix Frank ff at mpexnet.de
Tue May 17 09:16:07 CEST 2011

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


On 05/16/2011 05:36 PM, Edwige Odedele wrote:
>   LV data/confwebmin in use: not deactivating
> 
>   LV data/mysql in use: not deactivating
> 
>   LV data/www in use: not deactivating
> 
> 0: State change failed: (-12) Device is held open by someone
> 
> Command 'drbdsetup 0 secondary' terminated with exit code 11
> 

There are active LVs which I assume are on the DRBD. Find out why they
cannot be deactivated. Once that's resolved, you will probably be able
to go Secondary as well.

You should really write in English. I didn't catch any of your context.

Regards,
Felix



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