Environment
Novell NetWare 6.5
Novell NetWare 6.5 Support Pack 5
Novell Open Enterprise Server (NetWare based)
Novell NetWare 6.5 Support Pack 5
Novell Open Enterprise Server (NetWare based)
Situation
12 Node cluster
abend.
All member nodes of the
cluster experienced an abend at the same time.
In the abend.log file it
shows the following entry: Abend 1 on P00: Server-5.70.05-0:
VLL: VllInvokeCallbacks() called with empty bitmasks
TheEIP of this abend is in
CLSTRLIB.NLM
This happend just after a node tried to join the cluster. The attempt to join the cluster failed with a fatal SBD error.
Resolution
Make sure that the HBA
card(s) is inserted properly in the slot on the
server mainboard.
In one of the nodes the
HBA card was not inserted properly, it was halfway in the
slot.
This caused a chain reaction
throughout the cluster when this node tried to join the cluster and
access the SBD partition.
Additional Information
The VllInvokeCallbacks is a
function in the VLL.NLM module. This module is an infrastructure
that integrates GIPC and SBD and provides an application
programming interface (API) according to the VI Architecture
industry standard, which is the standard for high-performance
cluster communication.VLL is also responsible for handling node
join and leave by coordinating with other cluster modules.