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autofailover may failover two nodes automatically within 1 minute if the master node is failed over and the old master nodes is elected as the master again

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this issue was reported by one of the users where autofailover was triggered twice instead of once on a cluster.

the root cause is still under investigation by aliaksey

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Aleksey Kondratenko added a comment -
So this is what happened.

* node .238 that's master and runs autofailover service starts to have some networking issues and is split from rest of cluster

* cluster elects .240 as new master

* autofailover on new master fails over .238

* network problems on .238 are somehow resolved and connection to rest of cluster is restored

* now cluster has 2 masters briefly: .238 and .240. .240 surrenders mastership to .238

* now .238 is the only master and things are fine, except it's autofailover service is not aware of automatic failover that happened when .238 was disconnected

* when some other node has problems .238 fails it over automatically


So the fix is to make sure autofailover service is always using latest autofailover count that's stored in config.

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Aleksey Kondratenko added a comment - So this is what happened. * node .238 that's master and runs autofailover service starts to have some networking issues and is split from rest of cluster * cluster elects .240 as new master * autofailover on new master fails over .238 * network problems on .238 are somehow resolved and connection to rest of cluster is restored * now cluster has 2 masters briefly: .238 and .240. .240 surrenders mastership to .238 * now .238 is the only master and things are fine, except it's autofailover service is not aware of automatic failover that happened when .238 was disconnected * when some other node has problems .238 fails it over automatically So the fix is to make sure autofailover service is always using latest autofailover count that's stored in config.
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Aleksey Kondratenko added a comment -
Done http://review.couchbase.org/14411
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Aleksey Kondratenko added a comment - Done http://review.couchbase.org/14411
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Aleksey Kondratenko added a comment -
somehow we didn't do it for 1.8.1 but for 1.8.2 instead. Will backport
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Aleksey Kondratenko added a comment - somehow we didn't do it for 1.8.1 but for 1.8.2 instead. Will backport
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Thuan Nguyen added a comment -
Integrated in github-ns-server-2-0 #328 (See [http://qa.hq.northscale.net/job/github-ns-server-2-0/328/])
    MB-4906 Always fetch autofailover count from config. (Revision a7e289d8b9f4e25ef1b4bf06956ad2074f50f0ea)
bp: MB-4906 Always fetch autofailover count from config. (Revision 79739e41a10fda00c537501e1b547baf5ac2c5d6)

     Result = SUCCESS
Aliaksey Kandratsenka :
Files :
* src/auto_failover.erl

Aliaksey Kandratsenka :
Files :
* src/auto_failover.erl
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Thuan Nguyen added a comment - Integrated in github-ns-server-2-0 #328 (See [ http://qa.hq.northscale.net/job/github-ns-server-2-0/328/ ])      MB-4906 Always fetch autofailover count from config. (Revision a7e289d8b9f4e25ef1b4bf06956ad2074f50f0ea) bp: MB-4906 Always fetch autofailover count from config. (Revision 79739e41a10fda00c537501e1b547baf5ac2c5d6)      Result = SUCCESS Aliaksey Kandratsenka : Files : * src/auto_failover.erl Aliaksey Kandratsenka : Files : * src/auto_failover.erl

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  • Assignee:
    Aliaksey Artamonau
    Reporter:
    Farshid Ghods
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