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AI-generated'Failed to acquire leadership' in YB-Master logs: what retry behavior should operators expect?
YugabyteDB's YB-Master relies on Raft-based leader election to choose the cluster leader. During startup or after a leader transition, a master that cannot win the election logs the documented entry Failed to acquire leadership , indicating the node could not take the cluster-leader role. The best-documented cause is quorum loss: when fewer than a majority o
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