[Gluster-users] Machine becomes its own peer

[Atin Mukherjee]

On Fri, Feb 17, 2017 at 11:19 AM, Scott Hazelhurst <
Scott.Hazelhurst at wits.ac.za> wrote:

>
> Dear all
>
> Last week I posted a query about a problem I had with a machine that had
> failed but the underlying hard disk with the gluster brick was good. I’ve
> made some progress in restoring. I now have the problem with my new
> restored machine where it becomes its own peer, which then breaks
> everything.
>
> 1. Gluster daemons are off on all peers, content of
> /var/lib/glusterd/peers looks good.
> 2. I start the gluster daemons on all peers. All looks good.
> 3. For about 2 minutes, there’s no obvious problem — if I do a gluster
> peer status on any machine it looks good, if I do a gluster volume status
> A01 on any machine it looks good.
> 4. Then at some point, the /var/lib/glusterd/peers file of the new,
> restored machine gets an entry for itself and things start breaking. A
> typical error message is the understandable
>
> : Unable to get lock for uuid: 4fb930f7-554e-462a-9204-4592591feeb8, lock
> held by: 4fb930f7-554e-462a-9204-4592591feeb8
>
> 5. This is repeatable — if I stop daemons, remove the offending entry in
> /var/lib/glusterd/peer, and restart, the same behavior occurs — all good
> for a minute or two and then something magically puts something in
> /var/lib/glusterd/peers
>

I'd need few more details here:

1. output of gluster peer status
2. output of cat /var/lib/glusterd/glusterd.info & cat
/var/lib/glusterd/peers/* from all the nodes


> In a previous step in restoring my machine, I had a different error of
> mismatching cksums and what I did then may be the cause of the problem.  In
> searching the list archives I found someone with a similar cksum problem,
> and the proposed solution was to copy the /var/lib/glusterd/vols/ from
> another of the peers to the new machine. This may not be the issue but this
> is the only thing I think I did that was unconventional.
>
> I am running version 3.7.5-19 on Scientific Linux 6.8
>
> If anyone can suggest a way forward I would be grateful
>
> Many thanks
>
> Scott
>
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