[DRBD-user] DRBD in Diskless/Inconsistent state, can't change state to Primary

Christopher Hawkins chawkins at bplinux.com
Fri Nov 3 14:22:57 CET 2006

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> -----Original Message-----
> From: drbd-user-bounces at linbit.com 
> [mailto:drbd-user-bounces at linbit.com] On Behalf Of Peter Bagger
> Sent: Friday, November 03, 2006 7:55 AM
> To: drbd-user at linbit.com
> Subject: [DRBD-user] DRBD in Diskless/Inconsistent 
> state,can't change state to Primary
> 
> Hi All,
> I can't get one of the disk into Primary state. I  have tried 
> a lot and been on Google a lot... I am using/tesing on 8.0 
> because I what to use primary/primary later on.
> 
> I am running a test enverment with 2 identical machines 
> (environment) with 3 pcs hard disks, for OS, metadata and DRBD.
> The Machines are running Debain Etch, and DRBD are install as 
> Debian packages.
> 
> DRBD says version 8.0pre5.
> 
> -----
> cat /proc/drbd says
> version: 8.0pre5 (api:84/proto:83)
> SVN Revision: 2481M build by root at drbd64, 2006-11-01 16:42:55
>  0: cs:Connected st:Secondary/Secondary ds:Diskless/Inconsistent r---
>     ns:0 nr:0 dw:0 dr:0 al:0 bm:0 lo:0 pe:0 ua:0 ap:0
> 
> and
> SVN Revision: 2481M build by root at drbd64, 2006-11-01 16:42:55
>  0: cs:Connected st:Secondary/Secondary ds:Inconsistent/Diskless r---
>     ns:0 nr:0 dw:0 dr:0 al:0 bm:0 lo:0 pe:0 ua:0 ap:0
>         resync: used:0/31 hits:0 misses:0 starving:0 dirty:0 changed:0
>         act_log: used:0/127 hits:0 misses:0 starving:0 
> dirty:0 changed:0
> -----
> 
> and when I tryed to make one off the active I get the follow error
> 
> drbd64:~# drbdadm primary all
> State change failed: (-2) Refusing to be Primary without at 
> least one UpToDate disk
> 
> and if I do
> 
> drbd64:~# drbdadm -- --do-what-I-say primary all
> 
>     drbdsetup: unrecognized option '--do-what-I-say'
>     Command 'drbdsetup /dev/drbd0 primary --do-what-I-say' terminated
>     with exit code 20
>     drbdsetup exited with code 20
>     drbd64:~#
> 
> -------
> 
--do-what-I-say seems to be deprecated now. Try "drbdsetup /dev/drbd0
primary -o"
 and for more details look at the -o paramter in the drbdsetup man page. 

Chris




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