Fresh rhel 5.4 installation on 2 nodes, clustering and cluster storage groups, Oracle Rac installed on both systems. When we try to configure the cluster (cluster suite i mean) using Luci web interface, just after pressing the "Create Cluster" button, the operation fails and in /var/log/messages we find these strings: [...] Nov 26 10:33:39 sdbsap01 openais[16218]: [MAIN ] ERROR: Could not accept Library connection: (null) - prior to this log entry, openais logger dropped '5' messages because of overflow. Nov 26 10:33:39 sdbsap01 openais[16218]: [MAIN ] ERROR: Could not accept Library connection: (null) - prior to this log entry, openais logger dropped '5' messages because of overflow. Nov 26 10:33:39 sdbsap01 openais[16218]: [MAIN ] ERROR: Could not accept Library connection: (null) - prior to this log entry, openais logger dropped '65' messages because of overflow. [...] and [...] Nov 26 10:38:03 sdbsap01 last message repeated 2 times Nov 26 10:38:06 sdbsap01 ccsd[16212]: Unable to connect to cluster infrastructure after 270 seconds. Nov 26 10:38:36 sdbsap01 ccsd[16212]: Unable to connect to cluster infrastructure after 300 seconds. [...] service cman status return [root@sdbsap01 ~]# service cman start Starting cluster: Loading modules... done Mounting configfs... done Starting ccsd... done Starting cman... failed [FAILED] [root@sdbsap01 ~]# and this is our cluster.conf file: [root@sdbsap01 ~]# cat /etc/cluster/cluster.conf <?xml version="1.0"?> <cluster alias="cludbsap01" config_version="1" name="cludbsap01"> <fence_daemon post_fail_delay="0" post_join_delay="3"/> <clusternodes> <clusternode name="sdbsap01-priv" nodeid="1" votes="1"/> <clusternode name="sdbsap02-priv" nodeid="2" votes="1"/> </clusternodes> <cman expected_votes="1" two_node="1"/> <fencedevices/> <rm/> </cluster> Using tcpdump multicast seems to allowed between the nodes 10:33:39.836081 IP (tos 0xc0, ttl 1, id 0, offset 0, flags [DF], proto: IGMP (2), length: 40, options ( RA (148) len 4 )) 192.1.1.26 > 224.0.0.22: igmp v3 report, 1 group record(s) [gaddr 239.192.158.231 to_in, 0 source(s)] 10:33:41.933008 IP (tos 0xc0, ttl 1, id 0, offset 0, flags [DF], proto: IGMP (2), length: 40, options ( RA (148) len 4 )) 192.1.1.27 > 224.0.0.22: igmp v3 report, 1 group record(s) [gaddr 239.192.158.231 to_ex, 0 source(s)] 10:33:41.965995 IP (tos 0x0, ttl 1, id 0, offset 0, flags [DF], proto: UDP (17), length: 176) 192.1.1.27.5149 > 239.192.158.231.netsupport: UDP, length 148 10:33:42.188485 IP (tos 0x0, ttl 1, id 0, offset 0, flags [DF], proto: UDP (17), length: 146) 192.1.1.27.5149 > 239.192.158.231.netsupport: UDP, length 118 10:33:42.507042 IP (tos 0xc0, ttl 1, id 0, offset 0, flags [DF], proto: IGMP (2), length: 40, options ( RA (148) len 4 )) 192.1.1.27 > 224.0.0.22: igmp v3 report, 1 group record(s) [gaddr 239.192.158.231 to_in, 0 source(s)] We are already tried to remove all the packages (yum groupremove "Clustering" "Cluster Storage"), the /etc/cluster and /var/lib/luci and /var/lib/ricci directories, and then reinstalling the cluster suite, but we still have this problem. Any suggestions? Regards Marco -- bizza http://www.rm-rf.eu/ -- Linux-cluster mailing list Linux-cluster@xxxxxxxxxx https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/linux-cluster