<div dir="ltr"><p class="MsoNormal">Hi all.<span></span></p>

<p class="MsoNormal">We had a strange issue with Gluster 3.8.4 under RHEL 7.2. <span></span></p>

<p class="MsoNormal"><span> </span></p>

<p class="MsoNormal">Initially, the partition storing the Gluster bricks ran out
of space. We tried recovering after expanding the underlying partition.
Eventually we decided to ‘reset’ Gluster, create the volume again from scratch.
I tried purging gluster by running something like:<span></span></p>

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<p class="MsoNormal"><span> </span></p>

<p class="MsoNormal">yum remove –y ‘glusterfs*’<span></span></p>

<p class="MsoNormal">rm -rf /var/lib/glusterd<span></span></p>

<p class="MsoNormal">rm –rf /etc/gluster*<span></span></p>

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<p class="MsoNormal">Reinstalling gluster:<span></span></p>

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<p class="MsoNormal">yum install –y glusterfs-server<span></span></p>

<p class="MsoNormal">systemctl start glusterd<span></span></p>

<p class="MsoNormal"><span> </span></p>

<p class="MsoNormal">Now a simple peer probe operation crashes the daemon:<span></span></p>

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<p class="MsoNormal">$ gluster peer probe &lt;any-valid-hostname&gt;<span></span></p>

<p class="MsoNormal"><span> </span></p>

<p class="MsoNormal">Connection failed. Please check if gluster daemon is
operational.<span></span></p>

<p class="MsoNormal"><span> </span></p>

<p class="MsoNormal"><span> </span></p>

<p class="MsoNormal">Looks like there is something I missed in the filesystem.<span></span></p>

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<p class="MsoNormal"><span> </span></p>

<p class="MsoNormal">On a clean gluster install on another host,<span></span></p>

<p class="MsoNormal"><span> </span></p>

<p class="MsoNormal">$ gluster peer probe &lt;any-valid-hostname&gt;<span></span></p>

<p class="MsoNormal"><span> </span></p>

<p class="MsoNormal">peer probe: failed: Probe returned with Transport endpoint
is not connected<span></span></p>

<p class="MsoNormal"><span> </span></p>

<p class="MsoNormal">Which is expected.<span></span></p>

<p class="MsoNormal"><span> </span></p>

<p class="MsoNormal">So somehow my clean install is not clean any more. This host
I can rebuild, but would be good to know the issue if this occurs on a host
that cannot easily be rebuilt.<span></span></p></div>