[Pacemaker] can't get pacemaker started

[Dave Jiang]

On Sun 29 Jul 2012 08:47:48 PM MST, Andrew Beekhof wrote:
> On Fri, Jul 27, 2012 at 9:31 AM, Dave Jiang <dave.jiang at intel.com> wrote:
>> Hi. I'm following the cluster from scratch guide to create a simple
>> active/passive 2 node cluster. I'm using the standard packages that come
>> with Fedora 17. I have corosync running and linked up. However I cannot
>> seem to get Pacemaker to run correctly. I don't see all the processes
>> loaded:
>>
>> 17286 ?        Ss     0:00 /usr/sbin/pacemakerd
>> -f
>> 17288 ?        Ss     0:00  \_ /usr/libexec/pacemaker/stonithd
>>
>> Looking at the log these stand out:
>>
>> Jul 26 16:26:02 leftnode cib[17378]:  warning: retrieveCib: Cluster
>> configuration not found: /var/lib/heartbeat/crm/cib.xml
>> Jul 26 16:26:02 leftnode attrd[17381]:   notice: crm_cluster_connect:
>> Connecting to cluster infrastructure: corosync
>> Jul 26 16:26:02 leftnode cib[17378]:  warning: readCibXmlFile: Primary
>> configuration corrupt or unusable, trying backup...
>> Jul 26 16:26:02 leftnode crmd[17383]:     info: crm_log_init_worker:
>> Changed active directory to /var/lib/heartbeat/cores/hacluster
>> Jul 26 16:26:02 leftnode cib[17378]:  warning: readCibXmlFile:
>> Continuing with an empty configuration.
>>
>> I'm not running heartbeat, should I be? It wasn't talked about in the guide.
>
> No. Some of these paths were determined back when Pacemaker was part
> of heartbeat.
> The last few are being changed for 1.1.8
>
>>
>> And then I noticed the qb_rb_chmod failed and a bunch of other failures.
>> Any ideas what am I not setting up correctly?
>
> That looks quite odd.
> Which user are you starting corosync as?
>
> Could you show the rpm version of corosync and libqb please?

I was running as root. I finally got it working. It was the evil that 
is selinux. I thought I had it turned off but apparently I didn't. 
Thanks. Probably should mention that as a gotcha in the guide though.