> > Please provide your config ... best is the ouput of "cibadmin -Q". > Reading the logs should also give you valuable hints. > sorry for the late response - i was trying a few things and really messed things up. I think you were right in your previous email about another adapter on same subnet - I am using vbox and cloned the vm --- i think this caused the duplicate ethernet hardware issue ---something like you are saying. So i tried to remove all packages and start out with a new nic or hardware address...now on installing pacemaker or heartbeat - i get the following error: Done. Warning: The home dir /var/lib/heartbeat you specified already exists. Adding system user `hacluster' (UID 117) ... Adding new user `hacluster' (UID 117) with group `haclient' ... The home directory `/var/lib/heartbeat' already exists. Not copying from `/etc/skel'. adduser: Warning: The home directory `/var/lib/heartbeat' does not belong to the user you are currently creating. Processing triggers for python-central ... I tried to clean it up - removed /etc/ha.d and /etc/corosync but the those directories and others are not coming back as it did on a fresh install. Can you help me with that ??? are there other files i need to remove ??? How can i turn on logging for heartbeat and pacemaker ??? thanks mjh -- Linux-cluster mailing list Linux-cluster@xxxxxxxxxx https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/linux-cluster