[DRBD-user] DRBD issue: Device is held open by someone

Dileep Nayak tech.disscuss2011 at gmail.com
Fri Jun 10 10:05:07 CEST 2011

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*Hi All,*

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> We've been facing this issue since last one year. We didn't get any
> solution for that. Please can you help us out here. The problem is described
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> *Problem summary*
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>  The problem is that when performing an HA failover from server A to
> server B, a DRBD resource is sometimes not shut down properly on server A.
> Several attempts are made to stop the DRBD resource, but finally it gives up
> and the server is rebooted. The failover to server B works properly; B
> becomes the Active server. After the reboot, server A comes up properly as
> the Standby server.
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>  So everything ends up in a good state (B is Active, A is Standby as
> expected). The issue is that server A is unexpectedly rebooted during the
> failover. We are vulnerable for the time period that server A is rebooting
> (a few minutes) in the sense that there is no Standby server to failover to.
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>  The problem is intermittent. Most HA failovers work as expected (server A
> does not reboot).
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>  When the problem does occur, the following lines are logged in the logs
> and displayed on the server console:
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>  drbd0: State change failed: Device is held open by someone
> drbd0: state = { cs:Connected st:Primary/Secondary ds:UpToDate/UpToDate
> r--- }
> drbd0: wanted = { cs:Connected st:Secondary/Secondary ds:UpToDate/UpToDate
> r--- }
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> Thanks,
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> Regards,
>
> Dileep Nayak
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