It also appears that the upstream maintainers felt this should be fixed in the kernel instead and sure enough it was changed in the kernel recently:
https://lkml.org/lkml/2017/7/3/709 This seems to indicate that the patch from the below Debian bug is no longer necessary: https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=858623 I don't see the issue in Xenial, but I do see it only in Artful. Can you confirm that this you were running version 1.8.5-2 in Artful? ** Bug watch added: Debian Bug tracker #858623 https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=858623 ** Changed in: ocfs2-tools (Ubuntu) Status: New => Confirmed -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu High Availability Team, which is subscribed to ocfs2-tools in Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1715251 Title: O2CB_HEARTBEAT_THRESHOLD not set Status in ocfs2-tools package in Ubuntu: Confirmed Bug description: After Upgrading to Kernel 4.4.0-93-generic Sep 5 23:34:11 vmsrv17 kernel: [ 1321.299778] (o2hb-3F82744807,3467,11):o2hb_check_slot:895 ERROR: Node 10 on device sd b1 has a dead count of 302000 ms, but our count is 62000 ms. Sep 5 23:34:11 vmsrv17 kernel: [ 1321.299778] Please double check your configuration values for 'O2CB_HEARTBEAT_THRESHO LD' Sep 5 23:34:11 vmsrv17 kernel: [ 1321.374058] (o2hb-3F82744807,3467,11):o2hb_check_slot:895 ERROR: Node 11 on device sd b1 has a dead count of 302000 ms, but our count is 62000 ms. Sep 5 23:34:11 vmsrv17 kernel: [ 1321.374058] Please double check your configuration values for 'O2CB_HEARTBEAT_THRESHOLD' From now /sys/kernel/config/cluster/${CLUSTER}/heartbeat/threshold is know as /sys/kernel/config/cluster/${CLUSTER}/heartbeat/dead_threshold Need to be changed in /etc/init.d/o2cb LINE 210 To manage notifications about this bug go to: https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/ocfs2-tools/+bug/1715251/+subscriptions _______________________________________________ Mailing list: https://launchpad.net/~ubuntu-ha Post to : [email protected] Unsubscribe : https://launchpad.net/~ubuntu-ha More help : https://help.launchpad.net/ListHelp

