Hi, are you sure that you have all hostnames set up properly? /etc/hosts should say: A.B.C.D node1.somewhere A.B.C.E node2.somewhere You should use node1.somewhere as node name in your cluster.conf Jakub > For the benefit of future googlers. > > I managed to get the cman service started without any error messages. I > also removed my customizations from the init script. > > It looks like the cman service is not able to detect whether services it > starts up has been started and then fails. > > I ended up stopping all services having only the following running: > Active Internet connections (servers and established) > Proto Recv-Q Send-Q Local Address Foreign Address > State PID/Program name > tcp 0 0 0.0.0.0:11111 0.0.0.0:* > LISTEN 3918/ricci > tcp 0 0 127.0.0.1:6010 0.0.0.0:* > LISTEN 5721/0 > tcp 0 0 :::22 :::* > LISTEN 3601/sshd > tcp 0 0 ::1:6010 :::* > LISTEN 5721/0 > tcp 0 0 ::ffff:10.x.x.x:22 ::ffff:10.x.x.x:40884 > ESTABLISHED 5718/sshd: lcp13o [ > > I then ran > service cman start -- Linux-cluster mailing list Linux-cluster@xxxxxxxxxx https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/linux-cluster