[DRBD-user] Secondary node wants to take over as Primary on reboot

Lars Ellenberg Lars.Ellenberg at linbit.com
Wed Feb 11 19:24:17 CET 2004

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/ 2004-02-11 10:41:22 -0700
\ Vera, Michael:
> Greetings,
> 
> I have a two-node heartbeat setup with the /home set up as drbd0. I
> tried rebooting bilbo2 (Secondary) prentending to patch the backup. When
> bilbo2 came back up, it cried "Do you want to abort waiting for other
> server and make this one primary?" and just sits there.
> 
> My question is, why doesnt it just happily take back its role as
> Secondary? What config changes need I make?

Hard to tell without further information.
This should only happen, if it cannot see the other node.

please:
drbdsetup /dev/nb0 show
cat /proc/drbd 

	Lars Ellenberg



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