Hello everyone, I'm setting up a cluster and was hoping to get some insight into trouble I'm having with running clvmd. My cluster seems to be in a good state (2 nodes). I using Debian Etch, 2.6.18 kernel, and redhat-cluster-modules for 2.6.18. --------------------------- cman_tool status: Protocol version: 5.0.1 Config version: 2 Cluster name: alpha1 Cluster ID: 6387 Cluster Member: Yes Membership state: Cluster-Member Nodes: 2 Expected_votes: 2 Total_votes: 2 Quorum: 2 Active subsystems: 3 Node name: hari Node ID: 1 Node addresses: 209.16.216.121 ------------------------------- cman_tool nodes: Node Votes Exp Sts Name 1 1 2 M hari 2 1 2 M seldon ------------------------------ cman_tool services: Service Name GID LID State Code Fence Domain: "default" 1 2 run - [1 2] DLM Lock Space: "clvmd" 2 3 run - [1 2] --------------------------------- When I run vgchange -aly I get the following message: vgchange -aly Unknown locking type requested. Locking type 3 initialisation failed. --------------------------- /etc/lvm/lvm.conf: # devices { dir = "/dev" scan = [ "/dev" ] filter = [ "r|/dev/cdrom|" ] write_cache_state = 1 sysfs_scan = 1 md_component_detection = 1 } log { verbose = 0 syslog = 1 overwrite = 0 level = 0 indent = 1 command_names = 0 prefix = " " } backup { backup = 1 backup_dir = "/etc/lvm/backup" archive = 1 archive_dir = "/etc/lvm/archive" retain_min = 10 retain_days = 30 } shell { history_size = 100 } global { umask = 077 test = 0 activation = 1 proc = "/proc" locking_dir = "/var/lock/lvm" locking_library = "liblvm2clusterlock.so" # ***** I VERIFIED the locking_dir exists, the library_dir is correct and the locking_library is in the right place locking_type = 3 library_dir = "/lib/lvm2" } activation { missing_stripe_filler = "/dev/ioerror" reserved_stack = 256 reserved_memory = 8192 process_priority = -18 mirror_region_size = 512 mirror_log_fault_policy = "allocate" mirror_device_fault_policy = "remove" } ------------------------------------- Important output of lsmod: lsmod Module Size Used by dm_snapshot 20664 0 dm_mirror 25216 0 dm_mod 62800 2 dm_snapshot,dm_mirror lock_dlm 44644 0 dlm 123040 4 lock_dlm cman 132800 15 lock_dlm,dlm lock_harness 10160 1 lock_dlm ---------------------------------- Thank you in advance for your help --Jim -- Linux-cluster mailing list Linux-cluster@xxxxxxxxxx https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/linux-cluster