[ClusterLabs] Restart of 2-node cluster causes split brain ?

Andrew Beekhof andrew at beekhof.net
Wed May 20 04:40:06 UTC 2015


> On 7 May 2015, at 6:25 pm, Stefan Schloesser <sschloesser at enomic.com> wrote:
> 
> Hi,
> 
> I have a 2 node drbd cluster. If for some reason one node is killed I am unable to restart the cluster without a split brain. I am running Ubuntu 14.04. This is what happens:
> After rebooting the downed node (named sec) I start on it corosync and pacemaker. Sec then immediately kills prim without waiting for drbd to be synced and starts all services on itself causing the split brain.
> 
> In the log I see:
> pengine:     info: determine_online_status_fencing:      Node sec is active
> May 07 09:25:08 [7061] sec    pengine:     info: determine_online_status:      Node sec is online
> May 07 09:25:08 [7061] sec    pengine:     info: native_print:         stonith_sec     (stonith:external/hetzner):     Stopped
> May 07 09:25:08 [7061] sec    pengine:     info: native_print:         stonith_prim    (stonith:external/hetzner):     Stopped
> May 07 09:25:08 [7061] sec    pengine:     info: native_print:         ip      (ocf::kumina:hetzner-failover-ip):      Stopped
> May 07 09:25:08 [7061] sec    pengine:     info: clone_print:   Master/Slave Set: ms_drbd [drbd]
> May 07 09:25:08 [7061] sec    pengine:     info: short_print:       Stopped: [ prim sec ]
> May 07 09:25:08 [7061] sec    pengine:     info: native_print:         fs      (ocf::heartbeat:Filesystem):    Stopped
> May 07 09:25:08 [7061] sec    pengine:     info: native_print:         mysql   (ocf::heartbeat:mysql): Stopped
> May 07 09:25:08 [7061] sec    pengine:     info: native_print:         apache  (ocf::heartbeat:apache):        Stopped
> May 07 09:25:08 [7061] sec    pengine:     info: native_color:         Resource stonith_sec cannot run anywhere
> May 07 09:25:08 [7061] sec    pengine:     info: native_color:         Resource drbd:1 cannot run anywhere
> May 07 09:25:08 [7061] sec    pengine:     info: master_color:         ms_drbd: Promoted 0 instances of a possible 1 to master
> May 07 09:25:08 [7061] sec    pengine:     info: rsc_merge_weights:    fs: Rolling back scores from mysql
> May 07 09:25:08 [7061] sec    pengine:     info: native_color:         Resource fs cannot run anywhere
> May 07 09:25:08 [7061] sec    pengine:     info: rsc_merge_weights:    mysql: Rolling back scores from apache
> May 07 09:25:08 [7061] sec    pengine:     info: native_color:         Resource mysql cannot run anywhere
> May 07 09:25:08 [7061] sec    pengine:     info: rsc_merge_weights:    apache: Rolling back scores from ip
> May 07 09:25:08 [7061] sec    pengine:     info: native_color:         Resource apache cannot run anywhere
> May 07 09:25:08 [7061] sec    pengine:     info: native_color:         Resource ip cannot run anywhere
> May 07 09:25:08 [7061] sec    pengine:     info: RecurringOp:   Start recurring monitor (3600s) for stonith_prim on sec
> May 07 09:25:08 [7061] sec    pengine:     info: RecurringOp:   Start recurring monitor (31s) for drbd:0 on sec
> May 07 09:25:08 [7061] sec    pengine:     info: RecurringOp:   Start recurring monitor (31s) for drbd:0 on sec
> May 07 09:25:08 [7061] sec    pengine:  warning: stage6:       Scheduling Node prim for STONITH
> 
> Version Info:
> 14.04: corosync Version: 2.3.3-1ubuntu1
>             Pacemaker Version: 1.1.10+git20130802-1ubuntu2.3
> 12.04: corosync Version: 1.4.2-2ubuntu0.2
>            Pacemaker Version: 1.1.6-2ubuntu3.3

Pacemaker is generally designed to be upgrade compatible, but different versions are not meant to be run together in the long-term.


> 
> I run other clusters with identical setup on Ubuntu 12.04 without such problems. So I believe something major has changed with the versions what I missed. 
> Maybe in the original reboot both nodes wanted to kill each other, prim won the race but sec remembered it wanted to kill prim and does so at the first possible opportunity i.e. on restart. Would that be possible? If so how can I stop this behavior?
> 
> 
> Stefan
> 
> 
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