Why was the cluster node fenced when the following was logged: "controld(dlm)[13452]: ERROR: Uncontrolled lockspace exists, system must reboot. Executing suicide fencing"

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Issue

A cluster node was rebooted after the following message was logged:

Nov 23 22:36:33 node42 controld(dlm)[13452]: ERROR: Uncontrolled lockspace exists, system must reboot. Executing suicide fencing

Environment

  • Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server 7 (with the High Availability Add On)
  • pacemaker

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