# Can't get Rancher back up
**URL:** https://forums.suse.com/t/cant-get-rancher-back-up/7040
**Category:** Rancher 1.x
**Created:** [August 7, 2017, 1:34am UTC](https://forums.suse.com/t/cant-get-rancher-back-up/7040 "2017-08-07T01:34:42Z")
**Posts on this page:** 4
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### Author:  [@palermomatt](https://forums.suse.com/u/palermomatt)
#### Post date: [August 7, 2017, 1:34am UTC](https://forums.suse.com/t/cant-get-rancher-back-up/7040/1 "2017-08-07T01:34:42Z")
i had Rancher previously installed and working. I setup a couple environments and some stacks inside them. then suddenly my Rancher access stopped working today, so i rebooted the server and couldn’t get it to come back up. I am using an external DB with the following command to run the server:
sudo docker run -d --restart=unless-stopped -p 8080:8080 rancher/server
–db-host [myhost.example.com](http://myhost.example.com) --db-port 3306 --db-user username --db-pass password --db-name cattle
but the logs show its stuck at this:
2017-08-06 18:03:12,830 INFO [main] [ConsoleStatus] Starting DB migration
2017-08-06 18:03:15,292 INFO [main] [ConsoleStatus] DB migration done
2017-08-06 18:03:15,879 INFO [main] [ConsoleStatus] Cluster membership changed [127.0.0.1:9345]
2017-08-06 18:03:15,881 INFO [main] [ConsoleStatus] Checking cluster state on start-up
2017-08-06 18:03:15,881 INFO [main] [ConsoleStatus] Waiting to become master
it’s been there for several hours now and i’ve tried multiple times. any idea how to fix this?
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### Author:  [@palermomatt](https://forums.suse.com/u/palermomatt)
#### Post date: [August 8, 2017, 5:21am UTC](https://forums.suse.com/t/cant-get-rancher-back-up/7040/2 "2017-08-08T05:21:59Z")
In case anyone runs into this, I was able to fix it by going into the external Rancher DB. It appears that when I was running the `docker run...` command, it was creating 2 records in the `cluster_membership` table. I just deleted the first record that it created, then it was able to finish getting up and running after that.
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### Author:  [@scippio](https://forums.suse.com/u/scippio)
#### Post date: [September 14, 2017, 11:42am UTC](https://forums.suse.com/t/cant-get-rancher-back-up/7040/3 "2017-09-14T11:42:15Z")
I have similiar problem now with rancher server 1.6.7. I have two servers connected HA with shared database. I started third now and this stopped on “INFO [main] [ConsoleStatus] Waiting to become master”. It does not matter how many more I run, all this new servers will stop at “Waiting to become master”.
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### Author:  [@scippio](https://forums.suse.com/u/scippio)
#### Post date: [September 14, 2017, 12:59pm UTC](https://forums.suse.com/t/cant-get-rancher-back-up/7040/4 "2017-09-14T12:59:55Z")
I found the problem with my setup:
I started servers via docker-compose and there:
This is good:
```
command: --db-host sqlserver --db-port 3306 --db-user root --db-pass abcd1234 --db-name rancher --advertise-address myserver1:9345 --advertise-http-port 443
```
This is bad:
```
environment:
- CATTLE_DB_CATTLE_MYSQL_HOST=sqlserver
- CATTLE_DB_CATTLE_MYSQL_PORT=3306
- CATTLE_DB_CATTLE_MYSQL_NAME=rancher
- CATTLE_DB_CATTLE_USERNAME=root
- CATTLE_DB_CATTLE_PASSWORD=abcd1234
- CATTLE_CLUSTER_ADVERTISE_ADDRESS=myserver1:9345
- CATTLE_CLUSTER_ADVERTISE_HTTP_PORT=443
```
!!