ctdb intermittent startup failure "Timed out waiting for lttng-sessiond"

[Christof Schmitt]

On Tue, Aug 02, 2016 at 11:10:52AM +1000, Martin Schwenke wrote:
> Hi Steve,
> 
> On Mon, 1 Aug 2016 12:05:41 -0500, Steve French
> <smfrench at gmail.com> wrote:
> 
> > I noticed that ctdb (Samba 4.4-stable) frequently fails to start
> > automatically on some of our systems.    RHEL 7.2 lttng problem?  "Timed
> > out waiting for lttng-sessiond"   Any ideas what this means or how to
> > workaround it? Anyone recognize this?  I see similar complaints from others
> > (https://lists.lttng.org/pipermail/lttng-dev/2014-April/022763.html)

If lttng tracing is not required, building Samba without lttng support
should workaround this issue:

./configure --without-lttng

Christof