Hi mi, it was hard coded to pick the first card if more than one was
available, this was done to keep things simple, I can add the logic to poll
all active cards and send you a patch, but this won't be configurable yet.
We are discussing how to best handle these situations in a configurable
manner right now
On Mar 13, 2012 3:45 PM, "Mi Zhou" <[email protected]> wrote:

> Hi,
>
> We are setting up pvfs2 server with orangefs-2.8.5. We have 2 IB cards
> in the system, but one of them is not active. When I tried to start up
> pvfs2 server, it complains about the card that is not active, and the
> server won't start up. Here is the log
>
>  [D 03/13/2012 15:28:41] Passing ib://pvfs03:3335 as BMI listen address.
> [D 03/13/2012 15:28:41] BMI_ib_initialize: init.
> [D 03/13/2012 15:28:41] openib_ib_initialize: init.
> [E 03/13/2012 15:28:41] Warning: get_nic_handle: found 2 HCAs, choosing
> the first.
> [E 03/13/2012 15:28:41] Error: openib_ib_initialize: port state is
> IBV_PORT_DOWN but should be ACTIVE; check subnet manager.
> [E 03/13/2012 15:28:41]
> [bt] /opt/orangefs/orangefs/sbin/pvfs2-server(error+0xca) [0x482faa]
> [E 03/13/2012 15:28:41]
> [bt] /opt/orangefs/orangefs/sbin/pvfs2-server(openib_ib_initialize
> +0x3d2) [0x4841d2]
> [E 03/13/2012 15:28:41]
> [bt] /opt/orangefs/orangefs/sbin/pvfs2-server() [0x482550]
> [E 03/13/2012 15:28:41]
> [bt] /opt/orangefs/orangefs/sbin/pvfs2-server() [0x432cfb]
> [E 03/13/2012 15:28:41]
> [bt] /opt/orangefs/orangefs/sbin/pvfs2-server(BMI_initialize+0x1ef)
> [0x43416f]
> [E 03/13/2012 15:28:41]
> [bt] /opt/orangefs/orangefs/sbin/pvfs2-server() [0x412e15]
> [E 03/13/2012 15:28:41]
> [bt] /opt/orangefs/orangefs/sbin/pvfs2-server() [0x414703]
> [E 03/13/2012 15:28:41]
> [bt] /opt/orangefs/orangefs/sbin/pvfs2-server(main+0xdfc) [0x4158cc]
> [E 03/13/2012 15:28:41]         [bt] /lib64/libc.so.6(__libc_start_main
> +0xfd) [0x36be81ec9d]
> [E 03/13/2012 15:28:41]
> [bt] /opt/orangefs/orangefs/sbin/pvfs2-server() [0x411ac9]
>
> I wonder why it did not use the active card. Has anybody seen this?
>
> Thanks,
>
> Mi Zhou
> St. Jude Children's Research Hospital
>
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