Race condition lets boot process of a node fail

Details

Detail name Value
Changelog Number 8099
Type Bug
Status Resolved
Affected Versions Exasol 6.1.0
Fix Versions Exasol 6.1.4
Resolution Date 2019-06-18

Error Description

Under non-user controllable conditions, a race condition can lead to a situation in which a cluster node already finished its startup boot process but a following error message mentions that it has indeed failed. In that case it may happen that EXAStorage disks are shown as disabled in EXAoperation and it is not possible to use the disks any more.

Example log messages:
2019-06-06 11:23:15.214802	Information	n44	Boot process stage 3 finished.
2019-06-06 11:23:17.096061	Error	        n44	HDD mount failed: ...

Workaround

Restart the affected cluster node, then re-activate EXAStorage disks.