What does the message "waiting for quorum device Qdevice poll" mean?
Issue
-
The
fence
device is not triggered after a node lost communication in the cluster and displays the message "waiting for quorum device Qdevice poll (but maximum for 30000 ms)". -
The
corosync-qdevice
is waiting 30 seconds to recalculate the votes when a node is lost in order to trigger fencing.Sep 16 18:17:08 node2 corosync[1182]: [TOTEM ] A processor failed, forming new configuration. Sep 16 18:17:14 node2 corosync[1182]: [VOTEQ ] waiting for quorum device Qdevice poll (but maximum for 30000 ms) Sep 16 18:17:14 node2 corosync[1182]: [TOTEM ] A new membership (192.168.122.12:10968) was formed. Members left: 1 Sep 16 18:17:14 node2 corosync[1182]: [TOTEM ] Failed to receive the leave message. failed: 1 Sep 16 18:17:14 node2 corosync[1182]: [CPG ] downlist left_list: 1 received Sep 16 18:17:14 node2 attrd[2531]: notice: Node node1 state is now lost Sep 16 18:17:14 node2 attrd[2531]: notice: Removing all node1 attributes for peer loss - Sep 16 18:17:25 node2 corosync[1182]: [VOTEQ ] waiting for quorum device Qdevice poll (but maximum for 30000 ms) Sep 16 18:17:25 node2 corosync[1182]: [TOTEM ] A new membership (192.168.122.11:10972) was formed. Members joined: 1 Sep 16 18:17:25 node2 corosync[1182]: [CPG ] downlist left_list: 0 received Sep 16 18:17:25 node2 corosync[1182]: [CPG ] downlist left_list: 0 received
Environment
- Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server (RHEL) 7 with the High Availability or Resilient Storage Add-Ons
pacemaker
cluster withcorosync-qdevice
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