Ramon van Alteren wrote: > Hi list, > > We're having problems with running multiple clusters in the same vlan. > For some reason clvmd refuses to start properly. > > We think (but cannot completely confirm) that clvm is informed by the > clvmd on the other cluster about volumegroups > which it can't reach because it can't reach the underlying storage / > physical volumes. This sounds unlikely. clvmd can only talk to other clvmds in the same cluster - it has no way of communicating outside the cluster on a cman system. > The sympotoms are: > > node fails on reboot with hung clvmd daemon > no output from clvmd even when started with debug (clvmd -d) > > versions: > Cluster LVM daemon version: 2.02.09 (2006-08-17) > Protocol version: 0.2.1 > > cman_tool 1.03.00 (built Oct 19 2006 10:58:21) > Copyright (C) Red Hat, Inc. 2004 All rights reserved. > > ccsd 1.03.00 (built Oct 19 2006 10:58:17) > Copyright (C) Red Hat, Inc. 2004 All rights reserved. > > The node does join the cman cluster group and the defined fence group. > If the second cluster is shutdown nodes reboot without problems. Is there a clvmd lockspace? if not it might be something simple like the cluster not having quorum. > We're considering to force ccs to use different ports [1] for > communication as a workaround, any other options or suggestions would be > highly appreciated. -- Patrick Registered Address: Red Hat UK Ltd, Amberley Place, 107-111 Peascod Street, Windsor, Berkshire, SL4 ITE, UK. Registered in England and Wales under Company Registration No. 3798903 -- Linux-cluster mailing list Linux-cluster@xxxxxxxxxx https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/linux-cluster