[Pacemaker] Possible bug: Strange behaviour of cibadmin -D

[Andrew Beekhof]

On Mon, Nov 30, 2009 at 10:47 PM, Michael Schwartzkopff
<misch at multinet.de> wrote:
> Hi,
>
> I start with a fresh cluster, no cib.
>
> 1) Add a #health attribute and verify that is it i nthe CIB:
> # attrd_update -n "#health-smart" -U "red" -d "1s"
> # cibadmin -Q | grep health
> <nvpair id="status-..." name="#health-smart" value="red"/>
>
> 2) So far so good. I delete the attribute. Since this is a virtual machine
> with limited access I have to do the following:
> # cibadmin -Q | grep health > health.cib
> # cibadmin -D -x health.cib
> # cibadmin -Q | grep health
> -> nothing, entry gone. So far so good.

Nope.
Because the value is still in attrd, which is the authoritative source
for node attributes.
You need to delete it with attrd_updater too.

>
> 3) Now I want to write my attribute again:
> # attrd_updater -n "#health-smart" -U "red" -d "1s"
> # cibamin -Q | grep health
> - >nothing. This is NOT ok.
>
> Somehow the CIB does not accept any #health-smart attributed any more.
>
> 4) Strange, but OK. I try to delete my whole CIB to be able to start again:
> # cibadmin -E --force
> # cibadmin -Q | grep health
> <nvpair id="status-..." name="#health-smart" value="red"/>
>
> Here Is my attribute again! After an erasure if the CIB. How could this be?
>
> If this a bug? Should I file it? Or I am just too stupid to use the command
> line?
>
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