On Mon, Nov 28, 2005 at 02:07:52PM -0700, busy admin wrote: > I'm doing some testing with manual fencing and here's what I've found: > > Using the RHEL4 branch of code and running on a RHEL4 U1 system manual > fencing doesn't seem to work. If I have a simple two node cluster and > force a reboot of the primary node (node1 - running the service) the > service fails over to the secondary node (node2) and starts running > without me having to execute 'fence_ack_manual -n node1'. In fact if I > look in look at the /tmp filesystem I don't see the fifo file ever > being created. So in fact if I try to execute 'fence_ack_manual' it > complains about the fifo file not existing. So it's as if fenced > calling fence_manual isn't creating the fifo file to begin with. > > Using the STABLE branch and building against and 2.6.12 kernel manual > fencing works as expected. When I force a reboot of the system running > the service, the service doesn't fail over until I manually execute > 'fence_ack_manual', then the service starts sucessfully on the > remaining node. > > Any comments? Anyone else observe this same behavior? Is this just > broken in the RHEL4 branch? I can't recall or see any changes since RHEL4U1 that would explain this. Could you run fenced -D and send the output? Thanks, Dave -- Linux-cluster@xxxxxxxxxx https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/linux-cluster