Cman not loading

[foca]

I just upgraded to 8.10 from 8.04. After flollowing the whole process it arrived up to a point that it needed to reboot, which I did. Aftewr that i recieved a message that says

"fence tool waiting to cman to start" and
CCS [4353[ unable to conect to cluster infraestracture.

I am not able to pass that point.

what should I do?

than you very much.

santiago

[cube3x3]

I had the same problem.

Here how to fix it:

1. Get a Live CD of Ubuntu 8.10 (I think any linux live CD should work though)
2. Boot with that live cd
3. After booting, mount your computer's root partition to /mnt/repair using following command (assuming your root partition is in /dev/sda1

sudo mount /dev/sda1 /mnt/repair

If you have separate /home partition then mount it also to /mnt/repair/home

4. Next give following command

sudo chroot /mnt/repair

5. Then change to your computer user using su [your_username]
6. Then remove the cman and libfence3 packages using,

sudo apt-get remove cman libfence3

7. Then 'exit' and reboot.
8. Enjoy Intrepid

This steps solved my problem, hope also solves yours.

[foca]

Thank you very much. it worked very well

regards
santiago

[simontaylor]

I'm currently experiencing the same problem. I tried booting from an old Feisty disc and received this:

mount point /mnt/repair does not exist

Perhaps I've not got to root?

Please help. Am newby // so posted a new thread to Absolute Beginners Forum... But any additional help would be greatly appreciated.

Best,

Simon

[foca]

The same thing happened to me.

I had tocreate the dir first name /mnt/repair and the I mounted it to that dir. then it asked if I wanted to erase everything and i did it. I don't know if was ok but it worked.

[simontaylor]

I have tried mkdir -- can you please tell me how you exactly what you put into terminal? (I'm afraid I'm not as conversant with terminal use as I should be.)

And does it make a difference where you get into the terminal from? I'm on a Hda6 back up of Feisty at present. 8.10 has locked me out. Both recovery versions and generics return this: fence_tool: waiting for cman to start ... etc. etc.

then CCS [4394]: [CCS ] Unable to connect to cluster infrastructure ... a new attempt every 30 seconds.

Your help is greatly appreciated.
Thanks,

Simon

[sdudley]

Similar issue with a clean install of 8.10/x86.64. I did notice that after waiting five minutes, the cman error prompt appeared to time out and Ubuntu resumed booting as usual. Not sure what the cman thing is all about however given the symptoms, the point in the boot process and the series of error messages I'm wondering if it has something to do with mount points. I did notice a few messages fly by before the cman error...something about Red Hat GFS as if a series of drivers were being loaded.

Update: Waited the customary five minutes or so time out period and then logged into the GUI and using a terminal session removed the cman and libfence3 packages with the sudo apt-get remove cman libfence3 statement per Cube3x3's advice minus the disk partition items. Restarted and all is well. Apparently cman is some sort of cluster manager. I don't know if I opted for this during the install or it was inherited from a package I selected during the installation of 8.10. Here's the man page link for cman http://manpages.ubuntu.com/manpages/...man5/cman.html

[simontaylor]

sdudley - great. That's what I'd surmised. I'm simply all thumbs/dumb when it comes to discovering where things are or how to get at them.

If you can bear to dole out a little more downhome advice: I don't know what you mean by a customary 5 minutes; how did you log in to the GUI? what exactly in Terminal?

In the past I've had trouble finding root partition. Here's a list of my partitions (all ATA):

Device Boot Start End Blocks Id System
/dev/hda1 * 1 2611 20972826 7 HPFS/NTFS
/dev/hda2 2612 26485 191767905 7 HPFS/NTFS
/dev/hda3 26486 28562 16683502+ 83 Linux
/dev/hda4 28563 30401 14771767+ 5 Extended
/dev/hda5 30235 30401 1341396 82 Linux swap / Solaris
/dev/hda6 * 28563 30158 12819807 83 Linux
/dev/hda7 30159 30234 610438+ 82 Linux swap / Solaris

I seem to be in hda6 writing this: an early backup of Feisty 7.04 which is actually quite functional. Still - I'm missing some handy things - like full address books - somewhere inside the above partitions.

Thanks sdudley,

Best,
Simon

[simontaylor]

I exaggerated in the previous post. Feisty does not give me access to full home folder. I'm missing every document and folder I've added over the last year - in other words, a year's work - and can't seem to gain access to them through the other partitions.

[simontaylor]

small correction - inside cited partition list I'm writing this from hda3 not hda6.