[DRBD-user] problem with drbd reconnection

Christoph Mitasch christoph.mitasch at fh-hagenberg.at
Wed Jan 11 10:19:34 CET 2006

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Hi Nick!

Have you tried
drbdadm connect all
on the Primary?

Christoph

On Wed, 2006-01-11 at 10:47 +0100, nick wrote:
> I have two identical systems with drbd 0.7.10 (api:77) on two systems 
> running CentOS 4 kernel 2.6.9-5.0.3, they have one resource in common 
> hadisk, which is a software raid partition used for mail storage.
> 
> Last night, something went funky on the secondary, and it had to be 
> restarted (completely ran out of memory, it's not the first time it has 
> happened), and when it came up, intead of connecting like it normally 
> does, it just sat there waiting for a connection
> 
> a cat /proc/drbd on the primary gives me this:
> 
>   0: cs:WFReportParams st:Primary/Unknown ld:Consistent
>      ns:75710352 nr:0 dw:80996564 dr:25603549 al:156060 bm:15221 lo:0 
> pe:0 ua:0 ap:0
> 
> on the secondary, I get this:
> 
> 0: cs:WFConnection st:Secondary/Unknown ld:Consistent
>      ns:0 nr:0 dw:0 dr:0 al:0 bm:0 lo:0 pe:0 ua:0 ap:0
> 
> 
> 
> as it says, waiting for connection, the same message it gives me if I 
> run drbdadm cstate all.
> 
> However, if I run drbdam (anything) on the primary, it gives me this 
> message:
> 
> Child process does not terminate!
> Exiting.
> 
> Which is not good.
> 
> The problem is, the primary is still up, and accepting data, so I really 
> don't want to do anything rash, as I can't afford to lose mail (the 
> secondary is out of date, by how much I'm not sure). What options do I have?
> 
> I'll gladly give you any information you need, please help me get these 
> two back and talking, possibly with as little data loss as possible.
> 
> 
> Nick
> 
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