[Gluster-users] Cluster locked?

[Joe Julian]

On May 16, 2014 5:09:15 AM PDT, Vijay Bellur <vbellur at redhat.com> wrote:
>On 05/16/2014 12:24 PM, B.K.Raghuram wrote:
>> A hard accidental power down of our boxes now results in the message
>> "Another transaction could be in progress. Please try again after
>> sometime." for most volume operations. I'm presuming this is the
>result
>> of some sort of cluster lock. How does one get around the problem?
>Where
>> are such lock files stored?
>>
>
>The cluster lock is a lock that is in memory and is not persisted. A 
>restart of glusterd on the node that holds a stale lock would be
>helpful 
>to recover from this state.
>

Be aware, too, that any volume changes that might have been pending may not be consistent between servers. You may have to manually ensure that /var/lib/glusterd/vols is synced.