[PATCH]: Inconsistent recmaster during election.

[Kenny Dinh]

Hi Martin,

I am running Samba 4.1.13 and CTDB 2.5.4.

On Tue, Jan 5, 2016 at 11:14 PM, Volker Lendecke <Volker.Lendecke at sernet.de>
wrote:

> On Wed, Jan 06, 2016 at 02:42:48PM +1100, Martin Schwenke wrote:
> > It looks like you've found the problem.  Thanks!  That is, it looks
> > like:
> >
> >  smbcontrol winbindd ip-dropped <ip>
> >
> > hangs until the node is no longer in recovery mode, so shutdown is
> > delayed, which causes problems.
>
> That might be due to the registry being blocked. smbcontrol should
> be very simple and nonblocking, but it needs some info from smb.conf
> unfortunately. So maybe it's time to implement reading from the registry
> without messing with ctdb. The only problem there is -- we can't
> guarantee we see the latest copy of the registry without asking the
> cluster. However, smbcontrol mainly needs the location of the datagram
> sockets (or the messages.tdb for pre-4.2), and this information should
> be current without cluster currency.
>
> Volker
>
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