Yesterday afternoon, one of my consumers randomly crashed/rebooted. Upon
rebooting, its replication agreement with its master failed with the
following error:
Unable to acquire replica: Excessive clock skew between the supplier and
the consumer. Replication is aborting
I did a little bit of Google searching and found some list traffic from
a few years ago. From that I derived that this replica was hosed and I
would need to re-initialize it. No problem. A re-initialization didn't
do anything, same error. Starting from scratch from a completely
new/fresh replica produces the same result. That's when I noticed the
following errors in the logs on the master.
csngen_new_csn - Warning: too much time skew (-115319 secs). Current
seqnum=1
I downloaded the readNsState.py script attached to the following ticket
(https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=233642). Running this on
the master produced the following output
For replica cn=replica,cn=o\3Dpotsdam.edu,cn=mapping tree,cn=config
len of nsstate is 40
CSN generator state:
Replica ID : 6560
Sampled Time : 1328928777
Time in hex : 0x4f35d809
Time as str : Fri Feb 10 21:52:57 2012
Local Offset : 0
Remote Offset : 261
Seq. num : 1
System time : Thu Feb 9 14:00:01 2012
Diff in sec. : -114776
This leads me to believe that the clock skew problem is on the master.
I am not really sure how the clock skew happened. All of these systems
synchronize their clocks via a centralized time server and all the times
on their clocks are correct. There are 3 or 4 other replicas that are
still receiving incremental updates fine, but any attempt to add a new
replica results in a failed replication agreement due to excessive clock
skew.
I am writing to get a better understanding of the situation and see if
there is anything to be done to resolve this. At the moment it seems as
if I am caught in an unfortunate situation that will require
re-initialization of my master from a back-up.
Thanks for any help that can be provided.
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