# All nodes show 'safe\_to\_bootstrap: 0'

**URL:** <https://forums.percona.com/t/all-nodes-show-safe-to-bootstrap-0/11801>\
**Category:** Percona XtraDB Cluster\
**Tags:** percona\
**Created:** [August 16, 2021, 7:24pm UTC](https://forums.percona.com/t/all-nodes-show-safe-to-bootstrap-0/11801 "2021-08-16T19:24:53Z")\
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**Author:** ![Mikem](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/41988e/32.png) [@Mikem](https://forums.percona.com/u/Mikem)\
**Post date:** [August 16, 2021, 7:24pm UTC](https://forums.percona.com/t/all-nodes-show-safe-to-bootstrap-0/11801/1 "2021-08-16T19:24:53Z")

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Should I worry if all nodes are showing ‘safe\_to\_bootstrap: 0’ in the grastate.dat file? I am running into some issues with the original bootstrap node going offline. I have been able to restart but am not sure the reason or if this will continue.

This error pops up:

ERROR 1047 (08S01): WSREP has not yet prepared node for application use

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**Author:** ![Michael\_Coburn](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/flex019/user_avatar/forums.percona.com/michael_coburn/32/18_2.png) [@Michael\_Coburn](https://forums.percona.com/u/Michael_Coburn)\
**Post date:** [August 16, 2021, 9:12pm UTC](https://forums.percona.com/t/all-nodes-show-safe-to-bootstrap-0/11801/2 "2021-08-16T21:12:46Z")

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Hi @Mikem thanks for posting to the Percona Forums!  
When the PXC cluster is running normally the value for `safe_to_bootstrap` should always be 0. it only gets set to 1 when the cluster is gracefully shut down.

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**Author:** ![matthewb](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/flex019/user_avatar/forums.percona.com/matthewb/32/34_2.png) [@matthewb](https://forums.percona.com/u/matthewb)\
**Post date:** [August 17, 2021, 2:35pm UTC](https://forums.percona.com/t/all-nodes-show-safe-to-bootstrap-0/11801/3 "2021-08-17T14:35:06Z")

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@Mikem That error message indicates the node is not connected to the rest of the cluster. Make sure your my.cnf has correct wsrep\_ parameters set. All nodes should have the same basic configuration.

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**Author:** ![Mikem](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/41988e/32.png) [@Mikem](https://forums.percona.com/u/Mikem)\
**Post date:** [August 17, 2021, 2:37pm UTC](https://forums.percona.com/t/all-nodes-show-safe-to-bootstrap-0/11801/4 "2021-08-17T14:37:36Z")

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Thanks Matthew, it appears I had an incorrect IP in my my.cnf. All looks good now.