Forgot to add the log entry that lead us to the solution for our particular case: Log = /var/log/glusterfs/geo-replication/geo-master_slave1.mydomain2.com_geo-slave/gsyncd.log --------------------------------------------------------------------------------- [2019-12-11 20:37:27.831976] E [syncdutils(worker /gluster_bricks/geo-master/geo-master):339:log_raise_exception] <top>: FAIL: Traceback (most recent call last): File "/usr/libexec/glusterfs/python/syncdaemon/gsyncd.py", line 330, in main func(args) File "/usr/libexec/glusterfs/python/syncdaemon/subcmds.py", line 82, in subcmd_worker local.service_loop(remote) File "/usr/libexec/glusterfs/python/syncdaemon/resource.py", line 1267, in service_loop changelog_agent.init() File "/usr/libexec/glusterfs/python/syncdaemon/repce.py", line 233, in __call__ return self.ins(self.meth, *a) File "/usr/libexec/glusterfs/python/syncdaemon/repce.py", line 215, in __call__ raise res OSError: libgfchangelog.so: cannot open shared object file: No such file or directory ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------