Ceph - Unable to stop or start MON or OSD service with 'systemctl'

Solution Verified - Updated -

Issue

  • 'systemctl stop/start ceph' does not stop/start the Ceph MON or OSD services.
  • 'systemctl stop/start [daemon-type.[instance]' does not stop/start the MON or OSD service.

  • Issuing 'systemctl stop ceph' does not kill the Ceph processes on the node:

# ceph@cephmon1:TESTING:~> sudo systemctl stop ceph
# ceph@cephmon1:TESTING:~> ps ax | grep ceph
  519 ?        Ss     0:00 /bin/bash -c ulimit -n 32768; /usr/bin/ceph-mon -i cephmon1 --pid-file /var/run/ceph/mon.cephmon1.pid -c /etc/ceph/ceph.conf --cluster ceph -f
  520 ?        Sl     0:00 /usr/bin/ceph-mon -i cephmon1 --pid-file /var/run/ceph/mon.cephmon1.pid -c /etc/ceph/ceph.conf --cluster ceph -f
  705 ?        Ss     0:00 /bin/bash -c ulimit -n 32768; /usr/bin/ceph-osd -i 0 --pid-file /var/run/ceph/osd.0.pid -c /etc/ceph/ceph.conf --cluster ceph -f
  707 ?        Sl     0:00 /usr/bin/ceph-osd -i 0 --pid-file /var/run/ceph/osd.0.pid -c /etc/ceph/ceph.conf --cluster ceph -f
  985 pts/0    S+     0:00 grep --color=auto ceph
  • Ceph process is still running on this node.

Environment

  • Red Hat Ceph Storage 1.2.3
  • Red Hat Ceph Storage 1.3
  • Red Hat Ceph Storage 1.3.1
  • Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7.x

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