[DRBD-user] Unable to init a node

[Roland Kammerer]

On Tue, Mar 13, 2018 at 04:57:34PM +0100, Jdt wrote:
> Le 13/03/2018 à 16:21, Roland Kammerer a écrit :
> 
> > On Tue, Mar 13, 2018 at 04:07:17PM +0100, Jdt wrote:
> >> Hi,
> >>
> >> We had a three nodes Proxmox cluster in V4 (jessie) with drbd from Proxmox.
> >> I choose to reinitialize this cluster with Proxmox V5 (stretch) with
> >> drbd from Linbit.
> >>
> >> I install Proxmox from the ISO image on the three nodes. Proxmox nodes
> >> are not associated yet in a cluster.
> >> I install drbdmanage-proxmox as indicated in
> >> https://docs.linbit.com/docs/users-guide-9.0/#ch-proxmox
> >> My network interfaces are well configured for drbd.
> >> On the first node I create the drbdpool volume group as indicated in
> >> https://docs.linbit.com/docs/users-guide-9.0/#s-dm-init-cluster
> >>
> >> But it's failed in initialization :
> >> root at dmz-pve1:~ # drbdmanage init 192.168.2.10
> >>
> >> You are going to initialize a new drbdmanage cluster.
> >> CAUTION! Note that:
> >>   * Any previous drbdmanage cluster information may be removed
> >>   * Any remaining resources managed by a previous drbdmanage installation
> >>     that still exist on this system will no longer be managed by drbdmanage
> >>
> >> Confirm:
> >>
> >>   yes/no: yes
> >> Error: External command failed:
> >> drbdsetup new-resource .drbdctrl 0
> >> Command output:
> >>   (stdout)
> >> Command exited with exit_code 20
> >>
> >> Initialization failed
> > Failing at that early stage usually means that the wrong module is
> > loaded. cat /proc/drbd
> root at dmz-pve1:~ # cat /proc/drbd
> version: 8.4.7 (api:1/proto:86-101)
> srcversion: 2DCC561E7F1E3D63526E90D

Then I was right. drbdmanage always was drbd9 only. There should be a
drbd-dkms module in our proxmox repo. Install that one and make sure it
is loaded.

Regards, rck