connect(/var/lib/ctdb/ctdb.socket) failed: Connection refused

[Rowland Penny]

On 09/08/14 20:09, steve wrote:
> On Sat, 2014-08-09 at 19:10 +0100, Rowland Penny wrote:
>> On 09/08/14 18:55, steve wrote:
>>> On Sat, 2014-08-09 at 16:44 +0100, Rowland Penny wrote:
>>>> On 09/08/14 16:29, steve wrote:
>>>>> On Sat, 2014-08-09 at 16:06 +0100, Jelmer Vernooij wrote:
>>>>>> It depends on the init script you're using. The init script shipped
>>>>>> with ctdb upstream seems to load different files depending on the
>>>>>> distribution. You might have to manually create those files, such
>>>>>> as /etc/sysconfig/ctdb.
>>>>> Mmm. We haven't got an init script. ctdb from source shouldn't depend on
>>>>> the distribution we're using. Should it?
>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>> Hang on, there is something funny going on here, on 27/07/14 you had
>>>> /etc/default/ctdb, this is what you posted:
>>>>
>>>> Hi
>>>> Yeah, we have that:
>>>> /etc/default/ctdb
>>>>
>>>> So you must  have the other files somewhere, I am confused now ;-)
>>>>
>>>> Rowland
>>>>
>>> The story so far:
>>> 1. We have ctdb working on openSUSE 13.1. But we'd like to switch to
>>> Ubuntu.
>>> 2. Ubuntu ctdb has /etc/default/ctdb.
>>> 3. Ubuntu ctdb is broken. Something to do with sockets.
>>> 4. We were told to try source.
>>> 5. make install from a source build creates nothing in /etc/default
>>> nor /etc/sysconfig.
>>> 6. On Ubuntu, the latter is to be expected.
>>> 7. The source install has no init file.
>>> 8 through 137 still to come. Please help us fill them in:)
>>>
>>>
>> apt-get download ctdb
>> extract it (do not install it)
>> cherry pick the bits you are missing
>>
>> There you go, Robert is your uncle ;-)
>>
>> Rowland
> OK. We'll have a go but we don't hold out much hope. The default build
> seems to have everything hard wired under /usr/local but surprisingly
> the dbs still go to one of /var/lib/ctdb, /var/ctdb
> or /var/lib/lib/ctdb. All three are written to if they exist.
>
> No one seems to know much about this. There too many words like,
> 'probably', 'seems' and 'maybe' for our liking. I'm sure something will
> click soon. Your fruit harvesting method seems as good a bet as any:)
> Open Source documentation at its very best.
>
Well a script is a script, so you should be able to work out from the 
contents of the deb just what you have missing and use the scripts & 
conf files etc, altering them if required.

Rowland