From: Thomas Edward Kempster (tekempster@fastmail.fm)
Date: Mon Sep 19 2005 - 10:59:01 EDT
Thanks to John Lanier who replied. He suggested it might be a SCSI
reservastion problem, but it wasn't unfortunately.
I could find no solution except to rebuild the cluster, which I have now
done from scratch and both nodes are up and running again.
On Thu, 15 Sep 2005 03:12:13 -0700, "Thomas Edward Kempster"
<tekempster@fastmail.fm> said:
> I know this problem has appeared in the forum before but I cannot find
> an answer, any help would be very much appreciated.
>
> I have a TRU64 V5.1B (NHD-7 installed) cluster of 2 DS20 servers. Since
> creating the cluster recently one member has crashed daily and I decided
> today to remove it from the cluster and re-install it. The cluster is
> going under maintenance but at the moment I am on my own.
>
> I get the message, repeated many times, after booting -fi genvmunix:
> CNXMGR cannot form: quorum disk is in use. Unable to establish
> contact...
>
> I understand that this is a connection problem. I have a DEPA-SA fibre
> connection as a direct fibre cable link between the 2 servers and on
> booting get a message on the working cluster member "alt0 - 1000mbps
> full duplex link up". Also I have taken the default names and addresses
> for the cluster interconnection for now, as I did previously.
>
> I cannot connect the server to the network at this stage and am stuck to
> know where to go from here.
>
> Regards,
>
> Tom Kempster
>
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