On 10-10-29 11:12 AM, Jason Chen wrote:
> That is correct. In the error node, the master node cannot get
> STORE_PATH event and cannot start remoteListen and remoteWorker threads.
>

You mentioned previosuly something about gdb.

Can you connect to the slon process while it is in this state to see 
what it is doing.

ie  'info threads' to display a list of threads

thread 1
thread 2
etc..
to switch between threads.

and bt to show the stack trace of each thread.