CTDB Not Starting Up on CentOS 7
While preparing for my Red Hat Gluster Storage Administration exam (EX236), I got stuck at a section of configuring IP failover with CTDB Clustered Trivial Database) for Samba. The problem is that I coudldn’t get the ctdb service running on my home lab running CentOS 7 and a newer version of ctdb. This problem occurs on the following platform and package version: CentOS Linux release 7.7.1908 (Core) ctdb 4.9.1-6.el7 # systemctl status ctdb ● ctdb.service - CTDB Loaded: loaded (/usr/lib/systemd/system/ctdb.service; enabled; vendor preset: disabled) Active: failed (Result: exit-code) since Sun 2019-10-13 23:17:46 AEDT; 3min 7s ago Docs: man:ctdbd(1) man:ctdb(7) Process: 1335 ExecStart=/usr/sbin/ctdbd_wrapper start (code=exited, status=1/FAILURE) Oct 13 23:17:35 serverb.rh236.local systemd[1]: Starting CTDB... Oct 13 23:17:35 serverb.rh236.local ctdbd[1348]: CTDB logging to location file:/var/log/log.ctdb Oct 13 23:17:46 serverb.rh236.local ctdbd_wrapper[1335]: Timed out waiting for initialisation - check logs Oct 13 23:17:46 serverb.rh236.local systemd[1]: ctdb.service: control process exited, code=exited status=1 Oct 13 23:17:46 serverb.rh236.local systemd[1]: Failed to start CTDB. Oct 13 23:17:46 serverb.rh236.local systemd[1]: Unit ctdb.service entered failed state. Oct 13 23:17:46 serverb.rh236.local systemd[1]: ctdb.service failed. Here is the congent from /var/log/log.ctdb log: ...