Instance log: “Membership service failed to receive initial message from Veritas cluster membership after 301 seconds. Exiting...”

Error occurs because an instance has a VCMP timeout. Causes, and their solutions, include:

• The VxFEND resource is unavailable when you bring the ASE group online. To verify VxFEND resource availability:

  1. Take the VxFEND resource offline:

     hares -offline vxfend -sys <server name>
     

  2. Bring the ASE group online:

     hagrp -online ASE -sys <server name>
     

• Another instance is using the socket. Use the UNIX ps command to validate that no other dataserver processes are running on the node:

  ps -ef | grep dataserver
  

• The VxFEND resource is not enabled. Use hares -display to validate that VxFEND is enabled:

  hares -display vxfend -attribute Enabled
  

  If it is not enabled, use hares -modify:

  hares -modify vxfend Enabled 1
  

• The ASE resource is not dependent on the VxFEND resource. Use hares -dep to validate the ASE resource dependency:

  hares -dep
  

  If it is not dependent, use hares -link to reestablish the dependency:

  hares -link aseres1 vxfend
  

• Another Adaptive Server or VxFEND resource conflicts with a resource startup. Use hares -display to validate that no other Adaptive Server or VxFEND resource is enabled:

  hares -display
  

  Use hares -modify to rectify any problems:

  hares -modify ASE2 Enabled 0