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From: JARRELLRA@VTVAX5.BITNET (Ronald A. Jarrell)
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Subject: regaining quorum on a cluster
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Date: Sat, 1-Feb-86 07:12:40 EST
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According to DEC, there *is* a way to get quorum back on a system
by playing with the console.  I haven't tried it yet, but I'll mail out
the info I've been given...  Basically what happens when the system looses
quorum is that it sits there constantly forking at IPL 4.  Doing the
following from the console will force it to recompute quorum using the
standard formula which will unlock it.

        $ ^P
        >>> HALT
        >>> D/I 14 C
        >>> CONT
        IPC> Q
        IPC> ^Z

And your system comes back...


Oh yes:  On a V4.0 system you'll loose the console until the next reboot.
They fixed that problem in V4.1.

-Ron