[DRBD-user] frontend_changed: prepare for reconnect error

Lars Ellenberg lars.ellenberg at linbit.com
Mon Sep 17 10:05:14 CEST 2012

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


On Mon, Sep 17, 2012 at 08:42:09AM +0100, Tom Ford wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> We have 3 servers managed by a Ganeti installation that provide xen
> virtual machines on top of DRBD disks.
> Last week one of the servers rebooted itself at around 3am with very
> little in the way of information in the log files.
> The only possible error I can locate in the log files appears to be
> related to drbd but I cannot find any information about it after a
> considerable online search.

What makes you think this is related to DRBD in any way?

BTW, I remember seeing an issue that looked somewhat similar to this on
xen-devel, about "Network dies and kernel errors"...

> /var/log/messages
> Sep 13 03:05:05 cloud3 kernel: [2505197.407135] frontend_changed:
> backend/vbd/4/5632: prepare for reconnect
> Sep 13 03:05:06 cloud3 kernel: [2505198.199078] frontend_changed:
> backend/vbd/4/768: prepare for reconnect
> Sep 13 03:05:16 cloud3 kernel: [2505208.653926] xen-br0: port
> 5(vif4.0) entering disabled state
> Sep 13 03:05:16 cloud3 kernel: [2505208.654004] xen-br0: port
> 5(vif4.0) entering disabled state
> Sep 13 03:05:17 cloud3 kernel: [2505209.639215] device vif6.0
> entered promiscuous mode
> Sep 13 03:05:17 cloud3 kernel: [2505209.640540] xen-br0: port
> 5(vif6.0) entering forwarding state
> (Next messages are machine boot messages)
> Sep 13 03:07:29 cloud3 rsyslogd: [origin software="rsyslogd"
> swVersion="4.6.4" x-pid="1862" x-info="http://www.rsyslog.com"]
> (re)start
> Sep 13 03:07:29 cloud3 kernel: [    0.000000] Initializing cgroup
> subsys cpuset
> Sep 13 03:07:29 cloud3 kernel: [    0.000000] Initializing cgroup subsys cpu
> Sep 13 03:07:29 cloud3 kernel: [    0.000000] Linux version
> 2.6.32-5-xen-amd64 (Debian 2.6.32-45) (dannf at debian.org) (gcc
> version 4.3.5 (Debian 4.3.5-4) ) #1 SMP Sun May 6 08:57:29 UTC 2012
> 
> I think the first two lines that refer to frontend_changed may be
> the issue - could anyone shed any light as to what it means?
> Software Spec:
> Debian 6 Squeeze
> Xen 4
> Drbd 8.3.7
> 
> Many thanks,
> Tom

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