[Linux-HA] Compiling HA 2.0.8 error during make

[Madison Kelly]

Andrew Beekhof wrote:
> If you're compiling from scratch, I recommend using:
>    http://hg.linux-ha.org/dev/archive/STABLE-2.1.0.tar.bz2

If Paul's suggestion of installing libncurses5-dev doesn't work, I will.
Is this actually stable though? From what I gather on the ha-linux
website I thought 2.0.8 was the most recent stable.

> what problems are you seeing with the deb packages (and where are you
> getting them from?)

I actually filed a bug report on my problem after a previous thread here
ran dry. It's bug #1596 but it hasn't been addressed yet. The problem
was with either Ubuntu Feisty or Debian Etch using either the heartbeat2
package from the repos or the ones from:
http://software.opensuse.org/download/server:/ha-clustering/ for Ubuntu
and Debian respectively there would be errors written to
'/var/log/messages' every heartbeat. The error was:

Jun 13 12:25:01 vash heartbeat: [2929]: WARN: ha_msg_add_nv_depth: line
doesn't contain '='
Jun 13 12:25:01 vash heartbeat: [2929]: info:
Jun 13 12:25:01 vash heartbeat: [2927]: WARN: ha_msg_add_nv_depth: line
doesn't contain '='
Jun 13 12:25:01 vash heartbeat: [2927]: info:
Jun 13 12:25:03 vash heartbeat: [2929]: WARN: ha_msg_add_nv_depth: line
doesn't contain '='
Jun 13 12:25:03 vash heartbeat: [2929]: info:
Jun 13 12:25:03 vash heartbeat: [2927]: WARN: ha_msg_add_nv_depth: line
doesn't contain '='
Jun 13 12:25:03 vash heartbeat: [2927]: info:

Where 'vash' is the server name and '2927/2929' are the PIDs.

Over and over. This flooded the logs pretty quickly and wasn't something
I could live with, I am afraid. This occurred on two separate servers,
too. One a whitebox and one an HP/Compaq Proliant. In all cases HB2 was
the first thing I tried to install after a fresh OS install and update.
I did continue on under Debian to install DRBD but the errors above
continued to print.

Thanks for your interest and help!

Madison Kelly