Description of problem: One cluster startup if there are is no more semaphore space available groupd will block and not throw an error message. strace of groupd shows: semget(0x11b8c82e, 3, IPC_CREAT|IPC_EXCL|0600) = -1 ENOSPC (No space left on device) geteuid() = 0 ipcs -a hows semaphore count is equal to kernel.sem. Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable): openais-0.80.3-22.el5_3.8-x86_64 How reproducible: - every time Steps to Reproduce: - Use up all semaphores - Attempt to start cluster suite Actual results: cman startup hangs Expected results: Cluster startup should error out with a useful message
Honza, Have a look at resolving this problem. Also changing to 5.4 from 5.4.z since this is not a z stream regression.
This bug is duplicate of https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=561546 so closing this bug as duplicate. You can find solution based on POSIX semaphores in mentioned bug. *** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of bug 561546 ***