This article will help understand what is causing the subject issue and work-arounds
Environment
Vertica Version 12.0.4-9 or higher.
Situation
For a restart of STANDBY NODE in version VER 12.0.4-3 or higher
The startup.log will hang here
{
"node" : "v_vmart_node0005",
"stage" : "Waiting for Cluster Invite",
"text" : "Ready to be invited",
"timestamp" : "2025-06-16 13:36:48.001"
}And vertica.log will be filled up with the below messages.
2025-06-16 13:06:58.000 Cluster Inviter:0x7f5d917fa700 [Comms] <WARNING> Process #node_10#N192168010005(node v_vmart_node0005) is in V:db, but we're not. Most likely we're being invited or going down.And node_state may flip DOWN to STANDBY to DOWN again STANDBY
