Well, it just started working. I did a "modprobe fuse" and another gluster restart, and it started working. But I would still appreciate any ideas about what I could look at if/when this happens again. :) - brian On 4/2/12 5:50 PM, Brian Cipriano wrote: > I wrote about this issue a few weeks ago, but its started happening > again. > > To summarize, when I try to rebalance a volume I get a strange > combination of messages: > >> $ sudo gluster volume rebalance west start >> starting rebalance on volume west has been unsuccessful >> $ sudo gluster volume rebalance west status >> rebalance not started >> $ sudo gluster volume rebalance west stop >> stopped rebalance process of volume west >> (after rebalancing 0 files totaling 0 bytes) >> $ sudo gluster volume rebalance west start >> Rebalance on west is already started >> $ sudo gluster volume rebalance west status >> rebalance stopped > > > And no rebalancing actually occurs. > > This seems to be intermittent, in that I was able to balance this > volume previously. However no amount of uninstalling/reinstalling > gluster, stopping/starting the volume, rebooting the machine will > cause the issue to go away. > > I've just upgraded to Gluster 3.2.6 which did not help. > > Any ideas? Thanks so much, > > - brian > > On 3/9/12 11:55 AM, Brian Cipriano wrote: >> I didn't see my last message get posted to the list, sorry if I'm >> repeating myself. >> >> Installing the rdma package solved this problem. I don't know if >> there's an issue with the non-rdma deb or what; it must be some >> combination issue between my Ubuntu server and the non-rdma deb. >> >> One I reinstalled, rebalancing started working. >> >> I should mention that this is all on an Amazon EC2 instance - I >> started with the stock Ubuntu AMI listed on alestic.com, and only >> installed gluster and its dependencies. Maybe something to do with >> the Amazon instance. >> >> Thanks again for everyone's help on this. >> >> - brian >> >> On 3/9/12 11:48 AM, Kaleb S. KEITHLEY wrote: >>> On 03/09/2012 11:29 AM, Brian Cipriano wrote: >>>> Ah, no I didn't. Because I planned on using only TCP. Should I retry >>>> reinstalling with the rdma .deb? >>> >>> Only if you're going to use ib/rdma. >>> >>> ? >>> >>> Kaleb >>> _______________________________________________ >>> Gluster-users mailing list >>> Gluster-users at gluster.org >>> http://gluster.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/gluster-users >> >> _______________________________________________ >> Gluster-users mailing list >> Gluster-users at gluster.org >> http://gluster.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/gluster-users > > _______________________________________________ > Gluster-users mailing list > Gluster-users at gluster.org > http://gluster.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/gluster-users
