Samba 4.7.1 with ctdbL database not empty on attach

[Richard Sharpe]

On Tue, Nov 13, 2018 at 8:52 PM Amitay Isaacs <amitay at gmail.com> wrote:
>
> On Tue, Nov 13, 2018 at 5:41 AM Richard Sharpe via samba-technical
> <samba-technical at lists.samba.org> wrote:
> >
> > Hi folks,
> >
> > We have seen this a few times:
> >
> > -----------------------------
> > 2018/11/11 15:57:07.007190 ctdb-recovery[25110]: recovered event finished
> > 2018/11/11 15:57:07.333174 ctdb-recoverd[25102]: Resetting ban count
> > to 0 for all nodes
> > 2018/11/11 15:57:27.935107 ctdbd[24900]:
> > ../ctdb/server/ctdb_ltdb_server.c:397 tdb '/var/lib/ctdb/g_lock.tdb.1'
> > not empty on attach! aborting
> > 2018/11/11 15:57:27.935150 ctdbd[24900]: ctdb fatal error: database
> > not empty on attach
> > ------------------------------
> >
> > Does anyone know what causes it or if there is a fix for it?
>
> This can only happen if
> 1. there is another program (smbd, smbclient, etc.) running and
> holding the database open, and
> 2. CTDB is restarted and that program keeps running.

Thanks.

We saw lots of kernel watchdog timer events from that VM ... I suspect
the problem was that the ESX server was overloaded ...

-- 
Regards,
Richard Sharpe
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