Issue

• My services experienced a failover in my cluster after the logs indicate lrmd dumped core
• lrmd is segfaulting after reporting a long string of garbage characters in the log

Oct 20 04:00:20 [22743] node1       lrmd:     info: log_finished:   finished - rsc:H‰\$ÐH‰l$ØH‰ûL‰d$àL‰l$èH‰ÕL‰t$ðL‰|$øHƒìxH…ÿI‰÷A‰ÌE‰ÆM‰Í„€ action:H‰\$èH‰l$ðH‰ûL‰d$øHƒìH…ÿ„± call_id:-1387311296 pid:51 exit-code:0 exec-time:0ms queue-time:-23040ms
Oct 20 04:00:20 [22743] node1       lrmd:    error: crm_xml_err:    XML Error: string is not in UTF-8
Oct 20 04:00:20 [22744] node1       crmd:    error: crm_ipc_read:   Connection to lrmd failed
Oct 20 04:00:20 [6855] node1 pacemakerd:    error: child_waitpid:   Managed process 22743 (lrmd) dumped core
Oct 20 04:00:20 [6855] node1 pacemakerd:   notice: pcmk_child_exit:     Child process lrmd terminated with signal 11 (pid=22743, core=1)
Oct 20 04:00:20 [22744] node1       crmd:    error: mainloop_gio_callback:  Connection to lrmd[0x184e540] closed (I/O condition=17)
Oct 20 04:00:20 [22744] node1       crmd:     info: lrmd_ipc_connection_destroy:    IPC connection destroyed
Oct 20 04:00:20 [22744] node1       crmd:     crit: lrm_connection_destroy:     LRM Connection failed
Oct 20 04:00:20 [22744] node1       crmd:    error: do_log:     FSA: Input I_ERROR from lrm_connection_destroy() received in state S_NOT_DC
Oct 20 04:00:20 [22744] node1       crmd:   notice: do_state_transition:    State transition S_NOT_DC -> S_RECOVERY [ input=I_ERROR cause=C_FSA_INTERNAL origin=lrm_connection_destroy ]
Oct 20 04:00:20 [22744] node1       crmd:  warning: do_recover:     Fast-tracking shutdown in response to errors
Oct 20 04:00:20 [22744] node1       crmd:    error: do_log:     FSA: Input I_TERMINATE from do_recover() received in state S_RECOVERY
Oct 20 04:00:20 [22744] node1       crmd:     info: do_state_transition:    State transition S_RECOVERY -> S_TERMINATE [ input=I_TERMINATE cause=C_FSA_INTERNAL origin=do_recover ]
Oct 20 04:00:20 [22744] node1       crmd:     info: do_shutdown:    Disconnecting STONITH...
Oct 20 04:00:20 [6855] node1 pacemakerd:   notice: pcmk_process_exit:   Respawning failed child process: lrmd

• lrmd is crashing repeatedly with its backtrace showing it failing in stonith_dispatch_internal
• I'm fraquently seeing in the logs "connection to lrmd failed"

Nov 03 06:00:13 [4805] node1       crmd:    error: crm_ipc_read:    Connection to lrmd failed
Nov 03 06:00:13 [4805] node1       crmd:    error: mainloop_gio_callback:   Connection to lrmd[0x965c40] closed (I/O condition=17)
Nov 03 06:00:13 [4786] node1 pacemakerd:    error: child_waitpid:   Managed process 4802 (lrmd) dumped core
Nov 03 06:00:13 [4805] node1       crmd:     info: lrmd_ipc_connection_destroy:     IPC connection destroyed
Nov 03 06:00:13 [4805] node1       crmd:     crit: lrm_connection_destroy:  LRM Connection failed
Nov 03 06:00:13 [4786] node1 pacemakerd:   notice: pcmk_child_exit:     Child process lrmd terminated with signal 11 (pid=4802, core=1)
Nov 03 06:00:13 [4805] node1       crmd:    error: do_log:  FSA: Input I_ERROR from lrm_connection_destroy() received in state S_TRANSITION_ENGINE
Nov 03 06:00:13 [4805] node1       crmd:  warning: do_state_transition:     State transition S_TRANSITION_ENGINE -> S_RECOVERY [ input=I_ERROR cause=C_FSA_INTERNAL origin=lrm_connection_destroy ]
Nov 03 06:00:13 [4805] node1       crmd:  warning: do_recover:  Fast-tracking shutdown in response to errors
Nov 03 06:00:13 [4786] node1 pacemakerd:   notice: pcmk_process_exit:   Respawning failed child process: lrmd