<html><body bgcolor="#FFFFFF"><div>The real error should be in dmesg. Guessing it was unable to connect to all nodes. <br><br>On Mar 1, 2011, at 9:23 PM, "Curley, Rob" <<a href="mailto:rob.curley@windriver.com">rob.curley@windriver.com</a>> wrote:<br><br></div><div></div><blockquote type="cite"><div>
<div><font face="Arial" size="2"><span class="617081205-02032011">When I try and run the mkfs.ocfs2 command after I have updated all of the other nodes in the cluster with the new node information in cluster.conf I am getting the following error:</span></font></div>
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<div><font face="Arial" size="2">mkfs.ocfs2 -b 4k -C 32K -L "ocfs2" -N 4 /dev/sdb1<br>
mkfs.ocfs2 1.4.4<br>
Cluster stack: classic o2cb<br>
Overwriting existing ocfs2 partition.<br>
mkfs.ocfs2: Could not create domain while initializing the dlm<br>
As this is an existing OCFS2 volume, it could be mounted on an another node in the cluster.<br>
However, as mkfs.ocfs2 is unable to initialize the dlm, it cannot detect if the volume is in use or not.<br>
To skip this check, use --force or -F.</font><br>
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<div><span class="617081205-02032011"><font face="Arial" size="2">The only other item to note is that when I do the status command, the heartbeat is inactive:</font></span></div>
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<div><span class="617081205-02032011"><font face="Arial" size="2">/etc/init.d/o2cb status<br>
Driver for "configfs": Loaded<br>
Filesystem "configfs": Mounted<br>
Driver for "ocfs2_dlmfs": Loaded<br>
Filesystem "ocfs2_dlmfs": Mounted<br>
Checking O2CB cluster ocfs2: Online<br>
Heartbeat dead threshold = 31<br>
Network idle timeout: 30000<br>
Network keepalive delay: 2000<br>
Network reconnect delay: 2000<br>
Checking O2CB heartbeat: Not active<br>
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<div><span class="617081205-02032011"><font face="Arial" size="2">Version of ocfs2 on this node: 1.4.4 (Redhat 5.6 x86_64)</font></span></div>
<div><span class="617081205-02032011"><font face="Arial" size="2">Version of ocfs2 on all other nodes (5 others): 1.4.2-1 (Redhat 5.3 i686)</font></span></div>
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<div><span class="617081205-02032011"><font face="Arial" size="2">Do I need to shut down all other nodes in the cluster?</font></span></div>
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<div><span class="617081205-02032011"><font face="Arial" size="2">Any help would be greatly appreciated.</font></span></div>
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<div><span class="617081205-02032011"><font face="Arial" size="2"> - Thanks</font></span></div>
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