Master not elected

Question

I am testing my replication code with two nodes. When I open two clean new environments on my localhost, the master is successfully elected. The second time I open the environments the master is never elected. The console output is below. There is something obviously wrong with the second node. It keeps reporting a request for an unknown service called "Acceptor". I would be very grateful for any clues as to what might be happening.
James
Node 1:
Opening replicated environment with:
GroupName: Cheese
NodeName: Reypenaer
NodeHostPort: localhost:5002
NodeHelper: localhost:5002
100309 20:50:20:046 INFO [Reypenaer] Started ServiceDispatcher. HostPort=localhost:5002
100309 20:50:20:133 INFO [Reypenaer] Current group size: 2
100309 20:50:20:133 INFO [Reypenaer] Existing node Reypenaer querying for a current master.
100309 20:50:20:148 INFO [Reypenaer] Node Reypenaer started
100309 20:50:20:148 INFO [Reypenaer] Election initiated; election #1
100309 20:50:20:151 INFO [Reypenaer] Started election thread Tue Mar 09 20:50:20 CET 2010
<it just waits in this state>
Node 2:
Opening replicated environment with:
GroupName: Cheese
NodeName: Parmesan
NodeHostPort: localhost:5003
NodeHelper: localhost:5002
100309 20:50:28:150 INFO [Parmesan] Started ServiceDispatcher. HostPort=localhost:5003
100309 20:50:28:239 INFO [Parmesan] Current group size: 0
100309 20:50:28:240 INFO [Parmesan] New node Parmesan(-1) unknown to rep group
100309 20:50:34:165 INFO [Parmesan] Request for unknown Service: Acceptor Registered services: [Learner, LogFileFeeder, LDiff, NodeState]
100309 20:50:50:168 INFO [Parmesan] Request for unknown Service: Acceptor Registered services: [Learner, LogFileFeeder, LDiff, NodeState]
100309 20:51:22:171 INFO [Parmesan] Request for unknown Service: Acceptor Registered services: [Learner, LogFileFeeder, LDiff, NodeState]
<it keeps reporting a request for an unknown service>

Answer 1

Linda,
Thanks. I am digging through the options. I am pretty certain that my code to open the entity store does not get called until after the ReplicatedEnvironment constructor returns.
I have included a code fragment here. From the console output it looks like the sync up does get completed.
I will look into the other options in the morning. It's getting late here.
Thanks for the quick support.
James
          TimeConsistencyPolicy consistencyPolicy = new TimeConsistencyPolicy(
                    1, TimeUnit.SECONDS,
                    3, TimeUnit.SECONDS);
          replicationConfig.setConsistencyPolicy(consistencyPolicy);
          Durability durability = new Durability(Durability.SyncPolicy.WRITE_NO_SYNC, Durability.SyncPolicy.WRITE_NO_SYNC,                               
               Durability.ReplicaAckPolicy.SIMPLE_MAJORITY);
          environmentConfig.setDurability(durability);
          repDbEnv = createReplicatedEnvironment(dbEnvDir, replicationConfig, environmentConfig);
          log.info("Replicated environment was created");
          environment = repDbEnv;
     } else {
          // stand alone mode
          log.info("Starting in STANDALONE mode");
          environment = new Environment(dbEnvDir, environmentConfig);
initializeDatabase(); // This goes into a 'retry loop' and calls the ReplicatedEnvironment constructor
Output is:
100310 19:55:32:889 INFO [Parmesan] Started ServiceDispatcher. HostPort=localhost:5003
100310 19:55:32:979 INFO [Parmesan] Current group size: 0
100310 19:55:32:980 INFO [Parmesan] New node Parmesan(-1) unknown to rep group
100310 19:55:32:994 INFO [Parmesan] Master changed to Reypenaer
100310 19:55:32:995 INFO [Parmesan] New node Parmesan located master: Reypenaer(1)
100310 19:55:33:004 INFO [Parmesan] Node Parmesan started
100310 19:55:33:004 INFO [Parmesan] Replica loop started with master: Reypenaer(1)
100310 19:55:33:025 INFO [Parmesan] Replica-feeder handshake start
100310 19:55:33:084 INFO [Parmesan] Replica-feeder Reypenaer handshake completed.
100310 19:55:33:087 INFO [Parmesan] Replica-feeder Reypenaer syncup started. Replica range: first=-1 last=-1 sync=-1 txnEnd=-1
100310 19:55:33:093 INFO [Parmesan] Rollback to matchpoint -1 at 0x0/0x0 status=No active txns, nothing to rollback
100310 19:55:33:093 INFO [Parmesan] Replica-feeder Reypenaer start stream at VLSN: 1
100310 19:55:33:093 INFO [Parmesan] Replica-feeder Reypenaer syncup ended. Elapsed time: 6ms
100310 19:55:33:097 INFO [Parmesan] Replica initialization completed. Replica VLSN: -1 Heartbeat master commit VLSN: 34 VLSN delta: 35
100310 19:55:33:120 INFO [Parmesan] Refreshed 0 monitors.
Mar 10 19:55:33 EPGBooking[8891] INFO com.chello.booking.repository.BdbStore - Replicated environment was created
Mar 10 19:55:33 EPGBooking[8891] WARN NSLog - A fatal exception occurred: (JE 4.0.92) The current state is:REPLICA. The node transitioned to this state at:Wed Mar 10 19:55:33 CET 2010
[2010-3-10 19:55:33 CET] <main> com.sleepycat.je.rep.ReplicaWriteException: (JE 4.0.92) The current state is:REPLICA. The node transitioned to this state at:Wed Mar 10 19:55:33 CET 2010
     at com.sleepycat.je.rep.txn.ReadonlyTxn.lockInternal(ReadonlyTxn.java:62)
     at com.sleepycat.je.txn.Locker.lock(Locker.java:454)
     at com.sleepycat.je.dbi.CursorImpl.putLN(CursorImpl.java:1138)
     at com.sleepycat.je.dbi.DbTree.doCreateDb(DbTree.java:473)
     at com.sleepycat.je.dbi.DbTree.createDb(DbTree.java:362)
     at com.sleepycat.je.Database.initNew(Database.java:118)
     at com.sleepycat.je.Environment.setupDatabase(Environment.java:788)
     at com.sleepycat.je.Environment.openDatabase(Environment.java:537)
     at com.sleepycat.compat.DbCompat.openDatabase(DbCompat.java:364)
     at com.sleepycat.persist.impl.PersistCatalog.<init>(PersistCatalog.java:204)
     at com.sleepycat.persist.impl.Store.<init>(Store.java:187)
     at com.sleepycat.persist.EntityStore.<init>(EntityStore.java:186)
     at com.chello.booking.repository.BdbDataWrapper.initializeDatabase(BdbDataWrapper.java:266)