Attempting to start cluster service with clusvcadm results in "Temporary failure; try again" in RHEL 5 or 6
Issue
- We're unable to start a virtual machine in our xen cluster with
clusvcadm
:
# clusvcadm -e vm:app1
Local machine trying to enable vm:app1...Temporary failure; try again
- Cluster service fails to start with
clusvcadm
, giving error "Temporary failure; try again"
Environment
- Red Hat Enterprise Linux (RHEL) 5 or 6 with the High Availability Add On
- Cluster services were locked in
rgmanager
withclusvcadm -l
at some point
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