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

[Martin Schwenke]

On Sun, 10 Aug 2014 16:49:49 +0200, steve <steve at steve-ss.com> wrote:

> 2014/08/10 16:31:02.920250 [ 3913]: Node became HEALTHY. Ask recovery
> master 0 to perform ip reallocation
> 
>  ps aux|grep ctdbd
> root      3913  1.4  0.8   4824  4224 ?        SLs  16:30   0:06 ctdbd
> --dbdir=/usr/local/var/lib/ctdb
> --dbdir-persistent=/usr/local/var/lib/ctdb/persistent
> --event-script-dir=/usr/local/etc/ctdb/events.d
> --public-addresses=/usr/local/etc/ctdb/public_addresses
> --socket=/usr/local/var/lib/ctdb/ctdbd.socket --logfile=/var/log/syslog
> root      4050  0.7  0.2   4428  1064 ?        S    16:30   0:03 ctdbd
> --dbdir=/usr/local/var/lib/ctdb
> --dbdir-persistent=/usr/local/var/lib/ctdb/persistent
> --event-script-dir=/usr/local/etc/ctdb/events.d
> --public-addresses=/usr/local/etc/ctdb/public_addresses
> --socket=/usr/local/var/lib/ctdb/ctdbd.socket --logfile=/var/log/syslog
> root      6950  0.0  0.1   7124   836 pts/3    S+   16:37   0:00 grep
> --color=auto ctdbd
> 
> which ctdb
> /usr/local/bin/ctdb
> 
> ctdb errors out:
>  ctdb status
> 2014/08/10 16:38:59.619340 [ 7383]: client/ctdb_client.c:267 Failed to
> connect client socket to daemon. Errno:Connection refused(111)
> common/cmdline.c:156 Failed to connect to daemon
> 2014/08/10 16:38:59.626991 [ 7383]: Failed to init ctdb
> 
> Is the socket there?
>  ls -l /usr/local/var/lib/ctdb
> total 8
> srwx------ 1 root root    0 ago 10 16:41 ctdbd.socket
> drwx------ 2 root root 4096 ago 10 14:14 persistent
> drwx------ 2 root root 4096 ago 10 16:41 state

> [...]

> Question: why is ctdb status failing?

What does the following tell you?

  strings /usr/local/bin/ctdb | grep 'ctdbd\.socket'

The location of the socket is set consistently between ctdbd and ctdb at
compile time. You can't tell ctdbd a different location on the
command-line and expect ctdb to be able to connect.

peace & happiness,
martin