On Thu, Feb 21, 2013 at 2:37 AM, Lars Marowsky-Bree <[email protected]> wrote:
> On 2013-02-20T11:03:20, Ulrich Windl <[email protected]> 
> wrote:
>
>> Let me remark that I'm seeing the opposite for sbd-based fencing 
>> occasionally: The action is set to reboot, but occasionally some servers are 
>> powered down. The less-pleasing feature of that is that you can't power up a 
>> server using sbd, but you'll have to walk to find out what's wrong...
>
> The only way ever that SBD executes "poweroff" is when the fencing code
> sends a poweroff message - that's the only code path leading to this.

I think what he's suggesting is that the agent might be trying to do a
reboot but some part of that process stalls/aborts/times-out and only
the off part happens.

Just a guess...

>
> All SBD's suicide actions are reboot-based.
>
> If it powers off, that's either a stonith-ng issue or a hardware
> problem or something different; but I'm guaranteeing it's not SBD acting
> on its own.
>
> Or can the watchdog you use power off the system? Normally, watchdogs
> tend to reboot the system though ...
>
>
> Regards,
>     Lars
>
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