Replication initialization keeps getting wedged

ezyang at MIT.EDU (Edward Z. Yang) · Thu, 23 Sep 2010 18:12:57 -0400

Hello all,

I'm trying to recover a 5-master setup by reinitializing some
of the masters off of other masters.  However, when I initiate
a full update using 

nsDS5BeginReplicaRefresh: start

I see the following line in the target:

[23/Sep/2010:17:57:30 -0400] NSMMReplicationPlugin - multimaster_be_state_change: replica dc=scripts,dc=mit,dc=edu is going offline; disabling replication

but then the source writes out:

[23/Sep/2010:17:59:29 -0400] NSMMReplicationPlugin - agmt="cn="GSSAPI Replication to cats-whiskers.mit.edu"" (cats-whiskers:389): Unable to receive the response for a startReplication extended operation to consumer (Timed out). Will retry later.

and now the target is stuck non-replicating. What's going on and how
do I recover?

Edward