Pacemaker failed to start with error "Cluster user hacluster does not exist, aborting Pacemaker startup"
Issue
- The Pacemaker daemon sometimes fails to start, logging the following errors:
Feb 3 14:37:00 node1 pacemakerd[3617]: warning: Could not authorize group with corosync
Feb 3 14:37:00 node1 pacemakerd[3617]: notice: Starting Pacemaker 1.1.19-8.el7_6.5
Feb 3 14:37:00 node1 pacemakerd[3617]: error: Cluster user hacluster does not exist, aborting Pacemaker startup
Environment
- Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7, 8 or 9 (with the High Availability Add-on)
- Pacemaker
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