[ZOOKEEPER-2172] Cluster crashes when reconfig a new node as a participant

• Type: Bug
• Status: Closed
• Priority: Critical
• Resolution: Fixed
• Affects Version/s: 3.5.0
• Fix Version/s: 3.5.3, 3.6.0
• Component/s: leaderElection, quorum, server

Environment

Ubuntu 12.04 + java 7

• Hadoop Flags: Reviewed
• Assignee: Mohammad Arshad
• Reporter: Ziyou Wang
• Created: 21/Apr/15 04:14
• Updated: 07/Mar/18 14:37
• Resolved: 08/Sep/16 21:01

Description

The operations are quite simple: start three zk servers one by one, then reconfig the cluster to add the new one as a participant. When I add the third one, the zk cluster may enter a weird state and cannot recover.

I found “2015-04-20 12:53:48,236 [myid:1] - INFO [ProcessThread(sid:1 cport:-1)::PrepRequestProcessor@547] - Incremental reconfig” in node-1 log. So the first node received the reconfig cmd at 12:53:48. Latter, it logged “2015-04-20 12:53:52,230 [myid:1] - ERROR [LearnerHandler-/10.0.0.2:55890:LearnerHandler@580] - Unexpected exception causing shutdown while sock still open” and “2015-04-20 12:53:52,231 [myid:1] - WARN [LearnerHandler-/10.0.0.2:55890:LearnerHandler@595] - ******* GOODBYE /10.0.0.2:55890 ********”. From then on, the first node and second node rejected all client connections and the third node didn’t join the cluster as a participant. The whole cluster was done.

When the problem happened, all three nodes just used the same dynamic config file zoo.cfg.dynamic.10000005d which only contained the first two nodes. But there was another unused dynamic config file in node-1 directory zoo.cfg.dynamic.next which already contained three nodes.

When I extended the waiting time between starting the third node and reconfiguring the cluster, the problem didn’t show again. So it should be a race condition problem.

Issue Links

• is depended upon by: ZOOKEEPER-2513 majorChange exceptions during leader sync
• is related to: ZOOKEEPER-2855 Rebooting a Joined Node Failed Due The Joined Node Previously Failed to Update Its Configuration Correctly