Brick down and Gluster volume fails to 'force' start

Issue

• After a system crash of a gluster node, one of the brick of that node appears offline

• command gluster volume heal info shows transport endpoint not connected as here:

  gluster volume heal data info
                 Brick rhhi-1.lab.roskosb.info:/gluster_bricks/data/data
                 Status: Transport endpoint is not connected ------------> error
                 Number of entries: -  
  

• gluster volume is unresponsive to gluster volume start <volume_name> force