conntrackd daemon stops: is conntrackd running?

[Pablo Florencio <pabloflorencio@cica.es>]

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Hi to everyone.

First of all, I apologize for my english.

I have installed conntrackd in my high availability firewall cluster and 
I found one problem that I can't resolve. The installation was ok, I 
used Heartbeat instead of Keepalived for set up the virtual ips and the 
conntrackd script and it seems to work fine- I have checked that both 
nodes can dump the internal and external cache correctly.

The problem comes when tried to use conntrackd a few minutes later since 
the daemon has started, for example, if I want to dump statistics 
collected by daemon I found this error message:

 >conntrackd -s
 >can't connect: is conntrackd running? appropriate permissions?

The commands -c -f -R -k, etc, give the same result. If I try to restart 
the dameon I get this message:

 >conntrackd -d
 >lockfile `/var/lock/conntrack.lock' exists, perhaps conntrackd already 
running?

If I look for the conntrackd process ( ps -ef | grep conntrackd ) I 
found that it has disappear, so I have to delete the .lock file to be 
able to start ir again.

Is there any problem using heartbeat instead of keepalived? I can see it 
working fine for a few minutes but after that I mysteriously found this 
error in both nodes.

Any help or ideas would be very much appreciated.

Regards
Pablo Florencio.



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