[Ocfs2-users] O2CB heartbeat: Not active

[McKinley, Reid]

Thank you!

Everything appears to be fine then, except that we cannot mount an OCFS2
filesystem on our 2nd node.  When I try to mount the fs using
ocfs2console on the 2nd node, I receive this error message in a dialog
box:
"mount.ocfs2: Invalid argument while mounting /dev/sda on /oracle_home.
Check 'dmesg' for more information on this error. : Could not mount
/dev/sda"

I do not see any related messages in /var/log/dmesg.  
Any help is greatly appreciated.
Thanks,
Reid

The O2CB status is as follows on this 2nd node:

[root at nyclx2 ~]#  lsmod | grep ocfs2
ocfs2                 369640  0
ocfs2_dlmfs            55952  1
ocfs2_dlm             217104  2 ocfs2,ocfs2_dlmfs
ocfs2_nodemanager     225416  6 ocfs2,ocfs2_dlmfs,ocfs2_dlm
configfs               62301  2 ocfs2_nodemanager
jbd                    93873  2 ocfs2,ext3
 [root at nyclx2 ~]# service o2cb status
Driver for "configfs": Loaded
Filesystem "configfs": Mounted
Driver for "ocfs2_dlmfs": Loaded
Filesystem "ocfs2_dlmfs": Mounted
Checking O2CB cluster tiaa: Online
  Heartbeat dead threshold: 31
  Network idle timeout: 30000
  Network keepalive delay: 2000
  Network reconnect delay: 2000
Checking O2CB heartbeat: Not active
[root at nyclx2 ~]#

-----Original Message-----
From: Sunil Mushran [mailto:sunil.mushran at oracle.com] 
Sent: Tuesday, April 28, 2009 5:34 PM
To: McKinley, Reid
Cc: ocfs2-users at oss.oracle.com
Subject: Re: [Ocfs2-users] O2CB heartbeat: Not active

McKinley, Reid wrote:
>
> We have installed OCFS2 1.4.1 and for some reason we can only get the 
> mount point mounted on 1 of 2 nodes.  The 2^nd node shows that the 
> heartbeat is not active. 
>
>  
>
> [root at nyclx2 ~]# service o2cb status
>
> Driver for "configfs": Loaded
>
> Filesystem "configfs": Mounted
>
> Driver for "ocfs2_dlmfs": Loaded
>
> Filesystem "ocfs2_dlmfs": Mounted
>
> Checking O2CB cluster tiaa: Online
>
>   Heartbeat dead threshold: 31
>
>   Network idle timeout: 30000
>
>   Network keepalive delay: 2000
>
>   Network reconnect delay: 2000
>
> Checking O2CB heartbeat: Not active       (<< --- why is heartbeat not

> active?? )
>

The o2cb heartbeat starts when a volume is mounted. Is that volume
mounted on the second node?

Or is your qs, the mount on the second node is failing. For that I would
suggest you check cluster.conf to ensure that the ip addresses are
correct.
Also, suggest either shutting down iptables or adding rules to allow
traffic on the private network. Look for any firewalls between the
nodes.
dmesg should have more information. In short, cluster mount requires the
nodes to connect to each other.

> Also, should we be concerned that the ocfs2_nodemanager does not show 
> in this status?  We have seen this in some doc, but it never shows up 
> in our status.
>
> [root at nyclx1 log]# rpm -qa|grep -i ocfs2
>
> ocfs2-tools-1.4.1-1.el5
>
> ocfs2console-1.4.1-1.el5
>
> ocfs2-2.6.18-92.el5-1.4.1-1.el5
>
> ocfs2-2.6.18-92.el5debug-1.2.8-2.el5
>
> ocfs2-2.6.18-92.el5-debuginfo-1.4.1-1.el5
>
> ocfs2-tools-debuginfo-1.4.1-1.el5
>
> [root at nyclx1 log]# uname -r
>
> 2.6.18-92.el5
>

No need for concern. The output of the o2cb init script in 1.4
is slightly different than 1.2. (You could do lsmod to check if the
module is loaded or not.)

$ lsmod | grep ocfs2
ocfs2_dlmfs            23944  1
ocfs2_dlm             176916  1 ocfs2_dlmfs
ocfs2_nodemanager     141044  103 ocfs2_dlmfs,ocfs2_dlm
configfs               28753  2 ocfs2_nodemanager


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