[DRBD-user] DRBD Fails to start

Lars Ellenberg lars.ellenberg at linbit.com
Wed Dec 31 12:06:20 CET 2008

Note: "permalinks" may not be as permanent as we would like,
direct links of old sources may well be a few messages off.


On Tue, Dec 30, 2008 at 04:59:22PM -0800, Kavan Smith wrote:
> Hi Alireza,
> 
> Alireza Nematollahi wrote:
> > Hi all,
> > 
> >  
> > 
> > When I try to start DRBD, I get:
> > 
> > root at localhost> /etc/init.d/drbd start
> > 
> > Starting DRBD resources:    [ d(drbd0) No response from the DRBD driver!
> > Is the module loaded?
> > 

> > root at localhost> cat /proc/drbd
> > 
> > version: 8.2.6 (api:88/proto:86-88)
> > 
> > GIT-hash: 3e69822d3bb4920a8c1bfdf7d647169eba7d2eb4 build by
> > wweston at winlx-1, 2008-12-30 12:32:31
> >  0: cs:Unconfigured
> >
> > And that’s it. Nothing else happens on this node.
> > 
> > 
> > However, on the other node, I get the same error message, but the
> > resource comes up:
> > 
> > root at localhost> /etc/init.d/drbd start
> > 
> > Starting DRBD resources:    drbd0: No usable activity log found.
> > 
> > [ d(drbd0) s(drbd0) /dev/drbd0: Failure: (146) VERIFYAlgNotAvailPort 4
> > receive error code 8, packet dropped

this is something else. you need to modprobe crc32c...

> > Can someone please tell me what is wrong?

> Let's start by checking your ip addresses.  Loopback addresses are not
> valid as you would not be communicating to the other DRBD node.

oh, no, they are.
this is probably some sort of dynamic routing?


what distribution? kernel version?
matching drbd userland and kernel module?

any "interessting" kernel log messages?

output of
  ps -eo pid,state,wchan:30,cmd | grep -e D -e drbd -e cqueue


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