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Flavio Junqueira commented on ZOOKEEPER-917:
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Even though the logs do not make a lot of sense for me at this point, I was
thinking that your scenario is not supposed to work given our guarantees. Let's
look at an example.
Suppose we have 3 servers: A, B, and C. Suppose that C is initially the leader
and proposes operations that B is able to ack, but A doesn't. Now, suppose that
I come and replace C with a fresh server, same id but empty state, and I do it
before A and B are able to elect a new leader and recover. In this case, A and
C may form a quorum and the state of the ZooKeeper ensemble would be empty. The
replacement of server C with a fresh server violates our assumptions.
It should work, though, if you add a fresh server with a working ensemble. That
is, you let A and B elect a new leader, and then you start the new C server. In
your case, I'm still not sure why it happens because the initial zxid of node 1
is 4294967742 according to your excerpt.
> Leader election selected incorrect leader
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>
> Key: ZOOKEEPER-917
> URL: https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/ZOOKEEPER-917
> Project: Zookeeper
> Issue Type: Bug
> Components: leaderElection, server
> Affects Versions: 3.2.2
> Environment: Cloudera distribution of zookeeper (patched to never
> cache DNS entries)
> Debian lenny
> Reporter: Alexandre Hardy
> Priority: Critical
> Fix For: 3.3.3, 3.4.0
>
> Attachments: zklogs-20101102144159SAST.tar.gz
>
>
> We had three nodes running zookeeper:
> * 192.168.130.10
> * 192.168.130.11
> * 192.168.130.14
> 192.168.130.11 failed, and was replaced by a new node 192.168.130.13
> (automated startup). The new node had not participated in any zookeeper
> quorum previously. The node 192.148.130.11 was permanently removed from
> service and could not contribute to the quorum any further (powered off).
> DNS entries were updated for the new node to allow all the zookeeper servers
> to find the new node.
> The new node 192.168.130.13 was selected as the LEADER, despite the fact that
> it had not seen the latest zxid.
> This particular problem has not been verified with later versions of
> zookeeper, and no attempt has been made to reproduce this problem as yet.
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