Hi, On Thu, Jan 29, 2009 at 04:06:47PM +0430, Avnika Nautiyal wrote: > Problem: Heartbeat takeover doesn't happen when eth0 goes down > OS: Red Hat Enterprise Linux ES release 4 (Nahant Update 6) > Kernel: 2.6.9-67.ELsmp #1 SMP > Heartbeat packages: heartbeat-2.0.4-1.el4.i386.rpm, > heartbeat-pils-2.0.4-1.el4.i386.rpm, heartbeat-stonith-2.0.4-1.el4.i386.rpm > DRBD packages: drbd-0.7.25-1.i386.rpm, drbd-debuginfo-0.7.25-1.i386.rpm, > drbd-km-2.6.9_67.EL-0.7.25-1.i386.rpm, > drbd-km-2.6.9_67.ELsmp-0.7.25-1.i386.rpm > > Primary Machine Configuration > ------------------------------- > Attached primary-ha.cf, primary-haresources, primary-drbd.conf > IP: 192.168.75.110 > > Secondary Machine Configuration > ------------------------------- > Attached primary-ha.cf, primary-haresources, primary-drbd.conf > IP: 192.168.75.151 > > Virtual IP: 192.168.75.152 > > All my scenarios worked fine, except this particular and most critical one. > How to generate the scenario: > When I bring down the eth0 interface of primary server, the > secondary server does not take control of resources (Takeover > doesn't happen). The interface can be brought down either by > executing ifconfig eth0 down command or by plugging off the > cable from eth0 port.
The cluster can't recover from split brain (complete loss of communication) unless there is a fencing device (stonith). Looks like you don't have one. Thanks, Dejan > The logs on secondary server shows: > Jan 29 15:46:01 swestd2 kernel: r8168: eth0: link down > Jan 29 15:46:26 swestd2 heartbeat: [24615]: info: Link swestd1.domain:eth0 > dead. > Jan 29 15:46:26 swestd2 ipfail: [24639]: info: Link Status update: Link > swestd1.domain/eth0 now has status dead > Jan 29 15:46:27 swestd2 ipfail: [24639]: info: We are dead. :< > Jan 29 15:46:27 swestd2 ipfail: [24639]: info: Asking other side for ping > node count. > Jan 29 15:46:28 swestd2 ipfail: [24639]: info: Ping node count is balanced. > Jan 29 15:46:28 swestd2 ipfail: [24639]: info: No giveup timer to abort. > > Please help this is very critical to me!!! > Regards, > Avnika > _______________________________________________ > Linux-HA mailing list > [email protected] > http://lists.linux-ha.org/mailman/listinfo/linux-ha > See also: http://linux-ha.org/ReportingProblems _______________________________________________ Linux-HA mailing list [email protected] http://lists.linux-ha.org/mailman/listinfo/linux-ha See also: http://linux-ha.org/ReportingProblems
