[Pacemaker] pacemaker-1.0.6 + corosync-1.1.2 crashing - SOLVED

[Steven Dake]

On Sat, 2009-11-21 at 20:00 +0100, Nikola Ciprich wrote:
> Hi Guys,
> Finally I've found where the problem was! On my testing machines,
> the system was lacking separate /dev/shm tmpfs mount. While the /dev
> directory is also mounted as tmpfs, so it seemingly doesn't make any
> difference, there IS one: /dev is mounted with mode=755 parameter,
> while /dev/shm should be mounted without it. So after I mounted it,
> everything starts working like a charm! :)
> While it's certainly unusual that systems lack separate /dev/shm
> mount,
> it still might be mentioned in documentation.
> anyways, thanks to all of You for Your time.
> have a nice day.
> nik

thanks for the bug report.

corosync should use /var/lib/corosync if /dev/shm is unavailable.  This
is also what the code does. Probably needs a bit of testing around that
case.

Regards
-steve