IPALLOCATION : If the node is held pinned down in "init" state

by external services failing to start, or blocking CTDBD from finishing the startup phase,
we can encounter a situation where we have not yet fully initialized, but a
remote recovery master tries to release a certain ip clusterwide.

In this situation the node that is pinned down in init/startup phase
would fail to perform the release of the ip address since we are not yet fully operational and not yet host any valid interfaces.

In this situation, we just need to remain unhealthy, there is on need to
also ban the node.

Remove the autobanning for this condition and just let the node remain in
unhealthy mode.
Banning is overkill in this situation when the system is broken and just
draws attention to ctdbd instead of the root cause.

diff --git a/server/ctdb_takeover.c b/server/ctdb_takeover.c
index e3e6787c86974572e44b0ffe5ba1217faf582ee1..1d6fe6e4b8ba13c4a71b447501d227674ebb4e19 100644 (file)
--- a/server/ctdb_takeover.c
+++ b/server/ctdb_takeover.c
@@ -594,10 +594,8 @@ int32_t ctdb_control_takeover_ip(struct ctdb_context *ctdb,
 
        if (vnn->iface == NULL && have_ip) {
                DEBUG(DEBUG_CRIT,(__location__ " takeoverip of IP %s is known to the kernel, "
-                                 "but we have no interface assigned, has someone manually configured it?"
-                                 "banning ourself\n",
+                                 "but we have no interface assigned, has someone manually configured it? Ignore for now.\n",
                                 ctdb_addr_to_str(&vnn->public_address)));
-               ctdb_ban_self(ctdb);
                return -1;
        }
 
@@ -794,12 +792,10 @@ int32_t ctdb_control_release_ip(struct ctdb_context *ctdb,
        }
 
        if (vnn->iface == NULL) {
-               DEBUG(DEBUG_CRIT,(__location__ " release_ip of IP %s is known to the kernel, "
-                                 "but we have no interface assigned, has someone manually configured it?"
-                                 "banning ourself\n",
+               DEBUG(DEBUG_ERR,(__location__ " release_ip of IP %s is known to the kernel, "
+                                "but we have no interface assigned, has someone manually configured it? Ignore for now.\n",
                                 ctdb_addr_to_str(&vnn->public_address)));
-               ctdb_ban_self(ctdb);
-               return -1;
+               return 0;
        }
 
        DEBUG(DEBUG_NOTICE,("Release of IP %s/%u on interface %s  node:%d\n",