Hi dustan,

Just empty your recovery logs on every controller and your cluster will
start again.
Choose the node with the most writes, start it, make a dump and put the
dump to all other nodes.

Remember if you stop a cluster, you have to start the cluster in the
opposite way. e.g. your nodes are 1,2,3,4
you stop with sequence 2,3,1,4 you have to start node 4 first, cause he
was the "last man down"

hth

stefan

Dustan Ashley wrote:
> All-
>
>  
>
>     I have been building out a two controller and 4 postgres backend
> cluster with sequoia. I have been running through some exercises to get
> a handle on how to administer the cluster properly and have run into
> some issues. I tried a clean shutdown of the whole cluster, starting
> with the second controller. I issued the shutdown virtualdatabase
> command and the console hung, I checked the logs which seemed to
> indicate that everything was good and that there were no waiting
> transactions, but after a few hours, the console was still hung so I
> terminated the console session. I went back into the console and checked
> the status of the backends and they were both down and looking good. I
> issued shutdown to bring the controller down and got an error that said
> it was unable to shutdown the controller, but did not say the reason,
> there was also no info in the logs that indicated an issue. 
>
>     The exact same thing happened when I tried to shutdown the first
> controller as well. Apart from the headache this isn't a big deal as
> this is not in production yet and I have good backups that I can restore
> from, the problem I have now is that when I go to start controller2 I
> get an error about "Not Starting VDB (Not the last man down)" this error
> also appears when starting controller1. I can't begin to restore from my
> backups, because neither controller will load the VDB config file. So I
> was wondering if there was any way to force the controller to load the
> VDB config file so that I can reinitialize my databases.
>
>  
>
> Thank you-
>
> Dustan
>
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