[Gluster-users] geo-rep will not initialize

[Karl Kleinpaste]

I am trying to test a trivial configuration of 2 hosts, each of which 
has a simple 1-brick volume, that I wish to geo-rep from one to the other.
When I first experimented with this a couple years ago, it worked, but 
that effort ended prematurely and I never finished the real setup. I am 
coming back to it now for other purposes.

I'm on Fedora 39 with gluster 11.1. I'm using this guide:
https://docs.gluster.org/en/main/Administrator-Guide/Geo-Replication/

Hosts are pjs and pms, with respective volumes j and n.
I have created, started, and mounted the volumes, each on their own 
localhost.
I can also have each mount the other's volume, so general operation 
seems ok.

I have added the geoacct user and group, set up password-less login for 
each local root -> geoacct at other.
gluster-mountbroker things have been done and "gluster-mountbroker 
status" is sensible.
"gluster-georep-sshkey generate" has done what I'd expect.

I'm at the point of creating geo-replication. Command on pjs is:

gluster volume geo-replication j geoacct at pms::n create ssh-port 6247 
push-pem
(Yes, sshd listens on a nonstandard port.)

This fails with:
Please check gsync config file. Unable to get statefile's name
geo-replication command failed

Logs, which I have been tail(1)ing as it happens, show:

Received mount request for volume j
Config file (/var/lib/glusterd/geo-replication/j_pms_n/gsyncd.conf) 
missing. Looking for template config file 
(/var/lib/glusterd/geo-replication/gsyncd_template.conf) [No such file 
or directory]
Using default config 
template(/var/lib/glusterd/geo-replication/gsyncd_template.conf).
reading data from child failed
Unable to get configuration data for j(primary), 
geoacct at pms::n(secondary) from template config
Please check gsync config file. Unable to get statefile's name
Staging of operation 'Volume Geo-replication Create' failed on localhost 
: Please check gsync config file. Unable to get statefile's name

When I check on the files named, a bit of unhappiness is found:

$ ls -l /var/lib/glusterd/geo-replication/j_pms_n/gsyncd.conf 
/var/lib/glusterd/geo-replication/gsyncd_template.conf
ls: cannot access 
'/var/lib/glusterd/geo-replication/j_pms_n/gsyncd.conf': No such file or 
directory
-rwxr-xr-x 1 root geoacct 0 Aug 11 08:13 
/var/lib/glusterd/geo-replication/gsyncd_template.conf

That the first is missing seems normal; geo-rep creation should 
instantiate it, yes? The problem seems to be that the template file is 
present but empty.

How does the template file come into existence, and how should it be 
populated?

(~geoacct is /var/lib/glusterd/geoacct.)

Any clues would be most welcome. It feels strange to have everything 
working right up to the point of geo-rep creation.

--karl
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