[erlang-questions] mnesia recover from netsplit, can't delete node from schema

[Daniel Dormont]

Here is the scenario that happened to me as best I can tell. I had two
nodes in a cluster, let's call them A and B. B became unavailable for a
while and got rebooted. When I tried to start it again, things seem to work
except that certain tables seem not to exist any more. As far as I can
tell, these tables used to be enabled only on B and not A, and are now in
some sort of weird hybrid unavailable state.

A is still running fine in production even with these tables missing, but I
can't seem to get a clean start of my application (Ejabberd) on B. So what
I figured I would do would be just start a fresh node on B, start Mnesia,
add extra_db_nodes pointing to A and go from there. But the problem is A
still thinks these certain tables exist only on B (they are listed as
remote on A). Fortunately, Ejabberd is smart enough to create any tables it
needs on startup, so I was thinking a clean start on B would do this. So I
went into A and ran

mnesia:del_table_copy(schema, B).

thinking this would make the remote tables sort of go away. But instead it
fails with

{aborted,{no_exists,vcard_search}}

And trying to delete the table directly yields the same result.

Is there a way I can force Mnesia on A to completely forget about a set of
remote tables (and, for that matter, the node that was supposed to store
them) before I bring a new node online?

Dan
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