[Pacemaker] pacemaker service start failed.

Andrew Beekhof andrew at beekhof.net
Mon Nov 12 17:39:36 EST 2012


On Tue, Nov 13, 2012 at 9:36 AM, Vladislav Bogdanov
<bubble at hoster-ok.com> wrote:
> 12.11.2012 05:42, Andrew Beekhof wrote:
>> On Fri, Nov 9, 2012 at 5:15 PM, Vladislav Bogdanov <bubble at hoster-ok.com> wrote:
>>> 09.11.2012 04:48, Andrew Beekhof wrote:
>>> ...
>>>>
>>>> A bit of an update....
>>>>
>>>> The reverse lookup functionality has turned out to cause far more
>>>> problems and confusion than it was intended to solve.
>>>> So I am basically removing it.  Anyone worried about that
>>>> bootstrapping case will be encouraged to use a corosync nodelist.
>>>>
>>>> Below is the new section I added to the asciidoc documentation yesterday:
>>>>
>>>>
>>>> == Where Pacemaker Gets the Node Name ==
>>>>
>>>> Traditionally, Pacemaker required nodes to be referred to by the value
>>>> returned by `uname -n`.  This can be problematic for services that
>>>> require the `uname -n` to be a specific value (ie. for a licence
>>>> file).
>>>>
>>>> Since version 2.0.0 of Pacemaker, this requirement has been relaxed
>>>> for clusters using Corosync 2.0 or later.  The name Pacemaker uses is:
>>>>
>>>> . The value stored in 'corosync.conf' under +ring0_addr+ in the
>>>> +nodelist+, if it does not contain an IP address; otherwise
>>>> . The value stored in 'corosync.conf' under +name+ in the +nodelist+; otherwise
>>>> . The value of `uname -n`
>>>>
>>>> Pacemaker provides the `crm_node -n` command which displays the name
>>>> used by a running cluster.
>>>>
>>>> If a Corosync nodelist is used, `crm_node --name-for-id $number` is also
>>>> available to display the name used by the node with the corosync
>>>> +nodeid+ of '$number', eg. `crm_node --name-for-id 2`
>>>
>>> Andrew, could you please add that 'nodelist.node.%d.name' is a
>>> pacemaker-specific extension to corosync configuration and is neither
>>> used by corosync nor mentioned in its documentation?
>>
>> I guess.
>> Corosync lets you stick anything in the config, it didn't seem important.
>>
>>> Also, can you please some-how emphasize that behavior change in some
>>> "Upgrading to 2.0.0" chapter?
>>
>> Sure.
>>
>>>
>>> And, 'uname -n' does not work for remote nodes (you wrote that
>>> reverse-lookup functionality was primarily(?) introduced to get names of
>>> remote nodes before they are known to cluster). Will it still work if
>>> neither +ring0_addr+ has a name nor +name+ is populated?
>>
>> Define 'it'?
>> Without a name in 'ring0_addr' or 'name', Pacemaker will fall back to
>> uname -n as it always has.
>
> I mean that if corosync.conf doesn't have names in ring0_addr and name,
> then it is not possible to get remote nodes names before they announce
> themselves to cluster. In this case you only know ip address and
> corosync id. Not name.

Which is how it has always been when using corosync.




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