CMAN fails to start with "Waiting for quorum... Timed-out waiting for cluster" after removing a quorum device from the configuration in RHEL 6
Issue
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Per recommendation I have eliminated a Quorum disk from my two node High Availability cluster. Currently when I boot up a single node, the file system does not mount automatically. Not sure what's going on at this point?
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Attempting to manually start the
cmanservice fails with:
[root@node1 ~]# service cman start
Starting cluster:
Checking if cluster has been disabled at boot... [ OK ]
Checking Network Manager... [ OK ]
Global setup... [ OK ]
Loading kernel modules... [ OK ]
Mounting configfs... [ OK ]
Starting cman... [ OK ]
Waiting for quorum... Timed-out waiting for cluster
[FAILED]
Stopping cluster:
Leaving fence domain... [ OK ]
Stopping gfs_controld... [ OK ]
Stopping dlm_controld... [ OK ]
Stopping fenced... [ OK ]
Stopping cman... [ OK ]
Waiting for corosync to shutdown: [ OK ]
Unloading kernel modules... [ OK ]
Unmounting configfs... [ OK ]
Environment
- Red Hat Enterprise Linux(RHEL) 6 with the High Availability Add On
expected_votesset higher than the number of node votes present in the cluster- NO quorum device configured in the cluster (
<quorumd>is unset in/etc/cluster/cluster.conf)
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