# Howto re-join a cluster from scratch

**URL:** <https://forums.suse.com/t/howto-re-join-a-cluster-from-scratch/23455>\
**Category:** SLES High Availability Extension\
**Created:** [December 27, 2012, 5:09pm UTC](https://forums.suse.com/t/howto-re-join-a-cluster-from-scratch/23455 "2012-12-27T17:09:18Z")\
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**Author:** ![pierpafrassino](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/e47c2d/32.png) [@pierpafrassino](https://forums.suse.com/u/pierpafrassino)\
**Post date:** [December 27, 2012, 5:09pm UTC](https://forums.suse.com/t/howto-re-join-a-cluster-from-scratch/23455/1 "2012-12-27T17:09:18Z")

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Hi everybody,  
supposing to have a node not correctly joining a cluster, I would like to join from scratch the cluster itself.  
For this reason, I

1. stopped openais on the node I would like to reconfigure
2. deleted the node from the crm on the node survived with “crm node delete node2” command
3. deleted /var/lib/heartbeat directory on the node I would like to reconfigure
4. sleha-join -c -i 

but the node continue to say “Waiting for cluster”… for a long time. As soon as I “CTRL-C” the sleha-join command the node crashes and reboots.  
What is the correct procedure to rejoin correctly a node ? Surely I forgot something very important.

Best regards in advance  
PierPa

P.S.

Suse version:  
SLES for SAP Applications 11.2 (x86\_64) - Kernel

😕

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**Author:** ![system](https://us1.discourse-cdn.com/flex022/uploads/suse/original/2X/5/5012ba89e3ffb5220dac47d5ea0ba032e2fe1cb6.png) [@system](https://forums.suse.com/u/system)\
**Post date:** [January 3, 2013, 3:30pm UTC](https://forums.suse.com/t/howto-re-join-a-cluster-from-scratch/23455/2 "2013-01-03T15:30:30Z")

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