[DRBD-user] DRBDmanage (re)initialization

Roland Kammerer roland.kammerer at linbit.com
Mon Jun 12 09:57:18 CEST 2017

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, Jun 12, 2017 at 09:39:08AM +0200, Julien Escario wrote:
> Le 09/06/2017 à 14:24, Julien Escario a écrit :
> > Le 09/06/2017 à 09:59, Robert Altnoeder a écrit :
> >> On 06/08/2017 04:14 PM, Julien Escario wrote:
> >>> Hello,
> >>> A drbdmanage cluster is actually stuck in this state :
> >>> .drbdctrl role:Secondary
> >>>   volume:0 disk:UpToDate
> >>>   volume:1 disk:UpToDate
> >>>   vm4 connection:NetworkFailure
> >>>   vm7 role:Secondary
> >>>     volume:0 replication:WFBitMapS peer-disk:Inconsistent
> >>>     volume:1 peer-disk:Outdated
> >>> [...]
> >>> Any way to restart this ressource without losing all other ressources ?
> >> on vm4 and vm7, try 'drbdadm down .drbdctrl' followed by 'drbdadm up
> >> .drbdctrl'.
> >> In most cases, it just reconnects and fixes itself.
> 
> [Sorry for the double post]
> 
> Finally, I've been able to fully restore vm4 and vm5 (drbdsetup and drbdmanage
> working) but not vm7.
> 
> I've done that by firewalling port 6999 (port used by .drbdctrl ressource) and
> issuing a down/up on drbdctrl on vm4 and vm5.
> 
> So far, so good.
> 
> It seems to be the pure drbd part is somewhat screwed on vm7. I can't issue any
> drbdadm/drbdsetup command. They all hang up and keep running without being
> killed by time or kill (even -9).
> 
> With strace, drbdsetup status output is as the attached file. It seems to hang
> while writing to a socket but I'm not really familiar with strace output.
> 
> It would be really nice to get back to normal without a reboot. Any advice ?

Without access to that machine, I'd say that is how you have to resolve
it (reboot). And yes, we also saw these hangs in old drbd9 versions.
Please do yourself a favor and update to a recent version of the whole
DRBD stack. All the version information I saw in that thread is scary...

Regards, rck



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