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<DIV><SPAN class=809181714-13072006><FONT face=Arial
size=2>Hello,</FONT></SPAN></DIV>
<DIV><SPAN class=809181714-13072006><FONT face=Arial size=2>We are facing this
problem with DRBD 0.7.17.</FONT></SPAN></DIV>
<DIV><SPAN class=809181714-13072006><FONT face=Arial
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<DIV><SPAN class=809181714-13072006><FONT face=Arial size=2>After Primary node
goes down (it completely removed from the cluster), we are changing role of
Secondary to Primary. But Secondary is rejecting this role change. We are
getting following error:</FONT></SPAN></DIV>
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<DIV dir=ltr align=left><SPAN class=472215210-13072006><FONT face=Arial
size=2>ioctl(,SET_STATE,) failed: Permission denied</FONT></SPAN></DIV>
<DIV dir=ltr align=left><SPAN class=472215210-13072006><FONT face=Arial
color=#ff0000 size=2><STRONG>Partner is already
primary</STRONG></FONT></SPAN></DIV>
<DIV dir=ltr align=left><SPAN class=472215210-13072006><FONT face=Arial
size=2>Command '/sbin/drbdsetup /dev/drbd0 primary --do-what-I-say' terminated
with exit code 20</FONT></SPAN></DIV>
<DIV dir=ltr align=left><SPAN class=472215210-13072006><FONT face=Arial
size=2></FONT></SPAN> </DIV>
<DIV dir=ltr align=left><SPAN class=472215210-13072006><SPAN
class=809181714-13072006><FONT face=Arial size=2>We have put retry mechanism in
role change. We keep retrying for 10 seconds with the interval of 2 seconds.
Still we get same error. </FONT></SPAN></SPAN></DIV>
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class=809181714-13072006><FONT face=Arial
size=2></FONT></SPAN></SPAN> </DIV>
<DIV dir=ltr align=left><SPAN class=472215210-13072006><SPAN
class=809181714-13072006><FONT face=Arial size=2>We use ping interval 2
seconds.</FONT></SPAN></SPAN></DIV>
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class=809181714-13072006><FONT face=Arial
size=2></FONT></SPAN></SPAN> </DIV>
<DIV dir=ltr align=left><SPAN class=472215210-13072006><SPAN
class=809181714-13072006><FONT face=Arial size=2>Could you please tell us why
this role change is failing. (This problem comes pretty often. 2 out of 10
times)</FONT></SPAN></SPAN></DIV>
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class=809181714-13072006><FONT face=Arial
size=2></FONT></SPAN></SPAN> </DIV>
<DIV dir=ltr align=left><SPAN class=472215210-13072006><SPAN
class=809181714-13072006><FONT face=Arial size=2>I really appreciate <SPAN
class=731182706-14072006>any </SPAN>help.</FONT></SPAN></SPAN></DIV>
<DIV dir=ltr align=left><SPAN class=472215210-13072006><SPAN
class=809181714-13072006><FONT face=Arial size=2>Thanks and
regards,</FONT></SPAN></SPAN></DIV>
<DIV dir=ltr align=left><SPAN class=472215210-13072006><SPAN
class=809181714-13072006><FONT face=Arial
size=2>Parag.</FONT></SPAN></SPAN></DIV>
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