Cluster services become blocked in a recovering state when multiple nodes start at once and the initial start attempt fails in RHEL 5

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Issue

  • When nodes are booting and starting rgmanager, if the service fails to start and needs to be recovered on another node, clusvcadm commands may hang.
  • Service gets stuck in 'recovering' state when being started

Environment

  • Red Hat Enterprise Linux (RHEL) 5 or 6 with the High Availability Add On
  • RHEL 5: rgmanager prior to release 2.0.52-29.el5_8.5 or 2.0.52-37.el5
  • RHEL 6: rgmanager prior to release 3.0.12.1-17.el6
  • One or more services in /etc/cluster/cluster.conf

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