RHEL 6 High Availability or Resilient Storage cluster shows non-existent estranged nodes in clustat output, or has "Received message has invalid digest... ignoring. " messages in logs

Solution Verified - Updated -

Issue

  • Cluster node flooded with the following messages in /var/log/messages:
Jan 24 04:08:25 node1 openais[743]: [MAIN ] Invalid packet data  
Jan 24 04:08:25 node1 openais[743]: [MAIN ] Received message has invalid digest... ignoring.  
Jan 24 04:08:25 node1 openais[743]: [MAIN ] Invalid packet data  
Jan 24 04:08:26 node1 openais[743]: [MAIN ] Received message has invalid digest... ignoring.
  • Clustat output shows estranged nodes in the node list that aren't a part of the cluster:
Cluster Status for test-cluster @ Wed Oct  7 10:18:38 2009
Member Status: Quorate

 Member Name                             ID   Status
 ------ ----                             ---- ------
 node1.test                                  2 Online, Local
 node2.test                                  1 Online
 node7.prod                                  7 Offline, Estranged
  • Cluster showing odd behavior such as pulling the wrong configuration, or configuration version number when using cman_tool or other synchronization mechanism:

Environment

  • Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server 5 (with the High Availability Add on)
  • Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server 6 (with the High Availability Add on)

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