Adding second node gets [WSREP] posix_spawnp() failed: 13 (Permission denied)

I’m setting up a cluster as a PoC to test some performance and resilience stuff as part of developing a roadmap.

I have bootstrapped the primary node, and have set up the second node in line with the documentation, but starting the second node it fails with these errors in the log.

2020-09-04T12:08:33.195018Z 2 [Note] [MY-000000] [Galera] State transfer required:

Group state: 0bfa5e83-ee9a-11ea-87c7-bef4ee9147f0:11

Local state: 00000000-0000-0000-0000-000000000000:-1

2020-09-04T12:08:33.195032Z 2 [Note] [MY-000000] [WSREP] Server status change connected → joiner

2020-09-04T12:08:33.195044Z 2 [Note] [MY-000000] [WSREP] wsrep_notify_cmd is not defined, skipping notifi

cation.

2020-09-04T12:08:33.195139Z 0 [Note] [MY-000000] [WSREP] Initiating SST/IST transfer on JOINER side (wsrep_sst_xtrabackup-v2 --role ‘joiner’ --address ‘x.x.x.x’ --datadir ‘/var/lib/mysql/’ --basedir ‘/usr/’ --plugindir ‘/usr/lib64/mysql/plugin/’ --defaults-file ‘/etc/my.cnf’ --defaults-group-suffix ‘’ --parent ‘11943’ --mysqld-version ‘8.0.19-10’ ‘’ )

2020-09-04T12:08:33.195431Z 0 [ERROR] [MY-000000] [WSREP] posix_spawnp() failed: 13 (Permission denied)

2020-09-04T12:08:33.195492Z 0 [ERROR] [MY-000000] [WSREP] Failed to execute: wsrep_sst_xtrabackup-v2 --role ‘joiner’ --address ‘x.x.x.x’ --datadir ‘/var/lib/mysql/’ --basedir ‘/usr/’ --plugindir ‘/usr/lib64/mysql/plugin/’ --defaults-file ‘/etc/my.cnf’ --defaults-group-suffix ‘’ --parent ‘11943’ --mysqld-version ‘8.0.19-10’ ‘’ : 13 (Permission denied)

2020-09-04T12:08:33.195592Z 2 [ERROR] [MY-000000] [WSREP] Failed to prepare for ‘xtrabackup-v2’ SST. Unrecoverable.

2020-09-04T12:08:33.195686Z 2 [ERROR] [MY-000000] [Galera] SST request callback failed. This is unrecoverable, restart required.

2020-09-04T12:08:33.195703Z 2 [Note] [MY-000000] [Galera] ReplicatorSMM::abort()

2020-09-04T12:08:33.195718Z 2 [Note] [MY-000000] [Galera] Closing send monitor…

2020-09-04T12:08:33.195732Z 2 [Note] [MY-000000] [Galera] Closed send monitor.

2020-09-04T12:08:33.195746Z 2 [Note] [MY-000000] [Galera] gcomm: terminating thread

2020-09-04T12:08:33.195762Z 2 [Note] [MY-000000] [Galera] gcomm: joining thread

2020-09-04T12:08:33.195838Z 2 [Note] [MY-000000] [Galera] gcomm: closing backend

2020-09-04T12:08:33.206299Z 0 [Note] [MY-000000] [WSREP] Initiating SST cancellation

12:08:33 UTC - mysqld got signal 11 ;

Failed 13 obviously suggests a permissions issue, but I’m unclear as to whether it’s permissions on the local file system, or something reported from the primary node. I can see entries in the log of the primary node to acknowledge the connection from the second node, but nothing that reports any errors in there.

Any pointers as to where the permissions issue lies? Or is it something I’ve missed?

This might be permissions on the joiner node. Can you share configuration file? Which exact version of PXC are you installing? What specific OS are you running these on?

Installing the latest full cluster from the YUM repo on RH EL 8:

yum list installed | grep percona

percona-release.noarch 1.0-24 @@commandline

percona-testing.noarch 0.0-1 @System

percona-xtrabackup-80.x86_64 8.0.14-1.el8 @tools-release-x86_64

percona-xtradb-cluster-client.x86_64 8.0.19-10.1.el8 @pxc-80-release-x86_64

percona-xtradb-cluster-debuginfo.x86_64 8.0.19-10.1.el8 @pxc-80-release-x86_64

percona-xtradb-cluster-devel.x86_64 8.0.19-10.1.el8 @pxc-80-release-x86_64

percona-xtradb-cluster-full.x86_64 8.0.19-10.1.el8 @pxc-80-release-x86_64

percona-xtradb-cluster-garbd.x86_64 8.0.19-10.1.el8 @pxc-80-release-x86_64

percona-xtradb-cluster-server.x86_64 8.0.19-10.1.el8 @pxc-80-release-x86_64

percona-xtradb-cluster-shared.x86_64 8.0.19-10.1.el8 @pxc-80-release-x86_64

percona-xtradb-cluster-shared-compat.x86_64 8.0.19-10.1.el8 @pxc-80-release-x86_64

percona-xtradb-cluster-test.x86_64 8.0.19-10.1.el8 @pxc-80-release-x86_64

my.cnf :

Template my.cnf for PXC

Edit to your requirements.

[client]

socket=/var/lib/mysql/mysql.sock

[mysqld]

server-id=2

datadir=/var/lib/mysql

socket=/var/lib/mysql/mysql.sock

log-error=/var/log/mysqld.log

pid-file=/var/run/mysqld/mysqld.pid

wsrep_provider_options=”socket.ssl_key=server-key.pem;socket.ssl_cert=server-cert.pem;socket.ssl_ca=ca.pem”

Binary log expiration period is 604800 seconds, which equals 7 days

binlog_expire_logs_seconds=604800

######## wsrep ###############

Path to Galera library

wsrep_provider=/usr/lib64/galera4/libgalera_smm.so

Cluster connection URL contains IPs of nodes

#If no IP is found, this implies that a new cluster needs to be created,

#in order to do that you need to bootstrap this node

wsrep_cluster_address=gcomm://x.x.x.x

In order for Galera to work correctly binlog format should be ROW

binlog_format=ROW

Slave thread to use

wsrep_slave_threads=8

wsrep_log_conflicts

This changes how InnoDB autoincrement locks are managed and is a requirement for Galera

innodb_autoinc_lock_mode=2

Node IP address

wsrep_node_address=x.x.x.x

Cluster name

wsrep_cluster_name=pxc-cluster

#If wsrep_node_name is not specified, then system hostname will be used

wsrep_node_name=pxc-cluster-node-2

#pxc_strict_mode allowed values: DISABLED,PERMISSIVE,ENFORCING,MASTER

pxc_strict_mode=ENFORCING

SST method

wsrep_sst_method=xtrabackup-v2

[sst]

encrypt=4

ssl-key=server-key.pem

ssl-ca=ca.pem

ssl-cert=server-cert.pem

The plot thickens.

Running mysqld as the MysQL user manually instead of using ‘systemctl’, I don’t get the posix_spawn error, but I do get this instead, which suggests it may be a permissions issue around the systemctl process?

:

2020-09-08T09:07:40.902147Z 0 [ERROR] [MY-000000] [WSREP-SST] ******************* FATAL ERROR **********************2020-09-08T09:07:40.902193Z 0 [ERROR] [MY-000000] [WSREP-SST] Possible timeout in receving first data from donor in gtid/keyring stage2020-09-08T09:07:40.902209Z 0 [ERROR] [MY-000000] [WSREP-SST] Line 11082020-09-08T09:07:40.902221Z 0 [ERROR] [MY-000000] [WSREP-SST] ******************************************************2020-09-08T09:07:40.902233Z 0 [ERROR] [MY-000000] [WSREP-SST] Cleanup after exit with status:322020-09-08T09:07:40.910684Z 0 [ERROR] [MY-000000] [WSREP] Process completed with error: wsrep_sst_xtrabackup-v2 --role ‘joiner’ --address ‘x.x.x.x’ --datadir ‘/var/lib/mysql/’ --basedir ‘/usr/’ --plugindir ‘/usr/lib64/mysql/plugin/’ --defaults-file ‘/etc/my.cnf’ --defaults-group-suffix ‘’ --parent ‘7807’ --mysqld-version ‘8.0.19-10’   ‘’ : 32 (Broken pipe)2020-09-08T09:07:40.910723Z 0 [ERROR] [MY-000000] [WSREP] Failed to read uuid:seqno from joiner script.2020-09-08T09:07:40.910768Z 0 [ERROR] [MY-000000] [WSREP] SST script aborted with error 32 (Broken pipe)2020-09-08T09:07:40.910865Z 3 [Note] [MY-000000] [Galera] Processing SST received2020-09-08T09:07:40.910895Z 3 [Note] [MY-000000] [Galera] SST received: 00000000-0000-0000-0000-000000000000:-12020-09-08T09:07:40.910917Z 3 [System] [MY-000000] [WSREP] SST completed2020-09-08T09:07:40.911416Z 1 [Note] [MY-000000] [Galera]  str_proto_ver_: 3 sst_seqno_: -1 cc_seqno: 40 req->ist_len(): 02020-09-08T09:07:40.911446Z 1 [ERROR] [MY-000000] [Galera] Application received wrong state:        Received: 00000000-0000-0000-0000-000000000000        Required: 0bfa5e83-ee9a-11ea-87c7-bef4ee9147f02020-09-08T09:07:40.911462Z 1 [ERROR] [MY-000000] [Galera] Application state transfer failed. This is unrecoverable condition, restart required.2020-09-08T09:07:40.911479Z 1 [Note] [MY-000000] [Galera] ReplicatorSMM::abort()2020-09-08T09:07:40.911497Z 1 [Note] [MY-000000] [Galera] Closing send monitor…2020-09-08T09:07:40.911513Z 1 [Note] [MY-000000] [Galera] Closed send monitor.2020-09-08T09:07:40.911528Z 1 [Note] [MY-000000] [Galera] recv_thread() joined.2020-09-08T09:07:40.911542Z 1 [Note] [MY-000000] [Galera] Closing replication queue.2020-09-08T09:07:40.911556Z 1 [Note] [MY-000000] [Galera] Closing slave action queue.2020-09-08T09:07:40.911575Z 1 [Note] [MY-000000] [Galera] mysqld: Terminated.2020-09-08T09:07:40.911597Z 1 [Note] [MY-000000] [WSREP] Initiating SST cancellation

Can you also send us the contents of mysqld log on the DONOR side preferably with the same timestamps as the one from the JOINER.

Files attached
I’ve attached files for both starting using systemctl, and for a manual mysqld execution as the MySQL user.

donor_mysql_manualstart.log (8.46 KB)

joiner_systemctlstart.log (17 KB)

donor_systemctlstart.log (7.35 KB)

joiner_mysql_manualstart.log (15.9 KB)

Ignore the issue from the manual start. That was a red-herring.
The issue remains the posix_spawnp() error.
I’ve rebuilt the 3 servers to make sure there wasn’t anything I’d missed in the build, but I still get the same error when I attempt to connect nodes 2 and 3 to node 1 for the first time.

I’ve deployed on Ubuntu and not had the same issue. I can only surmise that it’s a permissions issue in Redhat which doesn’t apply to Ubuntu.

I now have a working cluster. Off to configure ProxySQL now