The corosync service fails to start with "Error: corosync[xxxx]: parse error in config: Can't open logfile '/var/log/cluster/corosync.log' for reason: No such file or directory"

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Issue

  • Corosync fails to start with Error: unable to start corosync

    Starting Cluster...
    Job for corosync.service failed because the control process exited with error code. See "systemctl status corosync.service" and "journalctl -xe" for details.
    Error: unable to start corosync
    
  • The following messages are seen in journalctl -xe and /var/log/messages:

    Jun 16 07:19:23 node1 corosync[1654]: parse error in config: Can't open logfile '/var/log/cluster/corosync.log' for reason: No such file or directory (2).
    Jun 16 07:19:23 node1 corosync: Starting Corosync Cluster Engine (corosync): [FAILED]
    Jun 16 07:19:23 node1 systemd: corosync.service: control process exited, code=exited status=1
    Jun 16 07:19:23 node1 systemd: Failed to start Corosync Cluster Engine.
    

Environment

  • Red Hat Enterprise Linux (RHEL) 7, 8 or 9 with the High Availability Add-On

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