How to recover from "error removing server with duplicate ID"?

Nomad
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I’m using Consul and Nomad, running a single node cluster for both Consul and Nomad 1.3.2, and having issues with two separate Nomad servers instances appearing in Consul even though I’m only running one server

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In blue is the actual IP of the server while red is an IP I don’t recognize. Also in the Nomad logs I’m seeing

 nomad: failed to reconcile: error="error removing server with duplicate ID \"f2d46f9f-ddc4-285a-a0d6-b3f77115c037\": need at least one voter in configuration: {[]}"

while checking raft returns

$ nomad operator raft list-peers
Node       ID                                    Address         State     Voter  RaftProtocol
(unknown)  f2d46f9f-ddc4-285a-a0d6-b3f77115c037  127.0.0.1:8300  follower  true   unknown

How do I recover from this and remove the duplicate/unknown server instance? Other Nomad client nodes are also having trouble joining the Nomad cluster because I believe it’s trying to join the unknown server. Thanks for your help.

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I was able to partially solve this by generating a new raft.peers file with

NOMAD_DATA_DIR=$(nomad agent-info -json | jq -r '.config.DataDir')
NOMAD_ADDR=$(nomad agent-info -json | jq -r '.stats.nomad.leader_addr')
NODE_ID=$(cat "$NOMAD_DATA_DIR/server/node-id")

cat <<EOF > "$NOMAD_DATA_DIR/server/raft/peers.json"
[
  {
    "id": "$NODE_ID",
    "address": "$NOMAD_ADDR",
    "non_voter": false
  }
]
EOF

and restarting the server. Now the client can join just fine and nomad operator raft list-peers returns appropriate response. However, I’m still seeing two Nomad server entries within Consul. How can I debug why it’s showing 2 when I only have 1 server?

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Bumping this since I’m still having this issue, thanks

4

+1

Dec 30 21:58:27 it nomad[278377]:     2022-12-30T21:58:27.365Z [ERROR] nomad: failed to reconcile: error="error removing server with duplicate ID \"f1f2f1f0-e9bf-017b-8f99-a23f68af95b6\": need at least one voter in configuration: {[]}"
Dec 30 21:58:27 it nomad[278377]:     2022-12-30T21:58:27.365Z [ERROR] nomad: failed to reconcile member: member="{it.global 192.168.86.100 4648 map[bootstrap:1 build:1.4.3 dc:dc1 expect:1 id:f1f2f1f0-e9bf-017b-8f99-a23f68af95b6 port:4647 >
Dec 30 21:58:26 it nomad[278377]:     2022-12-30T21:58:26.207Z [ERROR] nomad.autopilot: Failed to reconcile current state with the desired state
Dec 30 21:58:16 it nomad[278377]:
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+1

(Same kind of error message)

This seems to be very similar (or the same) as the issue in this thread

Did anyone find a solution in the meantime (1 year)?

EDIT:
what seems to have worked for now is (on the nomad server node):

systemctl stop nomad
rm /var/lib/nomad/server/{raft,serf}`
systemctl restart nomad