Gluster: Geo-replication Fixes — #1

Issue

On running gluster volume geo-replication <main vol> <secondary-host>::<secondary volume> start you get

geo-replication start failed for <primary vol> <secondary host>::<secondary volume>
geo-replication command failed

Error📓

OSError: libgfchangelog.so.0: cannot open shared object file: No such file or directory.

Log File 📁

/var/log/glusterfs/geo-replication/<main vol>_<secondary host>_<secondary_vol>/gsyncd.log

You can cat the above file and find the following error mentioned above.

Fix 🔧

1. Try rebooting glusterd service glusterd restartand check.
2. If it doesn’t work. Follow the following procedure:

root@user# cd /etc/ld.so.conf.d/
root@user /etc/ld.so.conf.d# vi myconfig.conf

• Press I or Insert to start writing.
• Add the following lines:

• Press Esc
• Type :wq and press Enter
• Run the following command

root@user /etc/ld.so.conf.d# ldconfig

• You can also check the files:

root@user /etc/ld.so.conf.d# ldconfig -v | less

• If it shows the files, then you are done. 😄
• Restart glusterd service

root@user # service glusterd restart

• Now run the geo-replication volume start command

root@user # gluster volume geo-rep <primary vol> <secondary host>::<secondary volume> start [force]
Starting geo-replication session between <primary vol> & <secondary host>::<secondary volume> has been successful

• Done 👍

References

Geo-replication

Gluster | Storage for your Cloud