[Linux-HA] Stonith question

[hm at seneca.muc.de]

hm at seneca.muc.de wrote:
> Alan Robertson <alanr at unix.sh> wrote:
> > Where it would be an "alas" would be if one of them was a serial link. 
> > *That* link comes up basically instantly.

> Not in this installation. The machines I ue do have serial ports (Intel
> boards) but I need these for the terminal server. So - only 2 eth links. 

> I'll give the initdead a try and report. 

Hmmm - this was the typical "Vorführeffekt" as we say in Germany. I have no
idea how that translates into English so ... 

I tried some failovers this morning with an unmodified ha.cf. Since the
clocks were slightly less that a minute apart I synced them with NTP, and
restarted heartbeat. The described effect did not occur again, so - the
secondary became standby again after the primary re-joined the cluster.
initdead=60, deadtime=30. 

Strange. Can the out-of-sync clocks cause this problem? 

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