Hi Victor. So it now looks like we will have to force eject the pod with LMVUTIL.
What we learned is this: when you have CPA and you plan powered off snapshots, you have to power off all Connections servers in all Pods and take the snapshots. What happened to us was the result of reverting snapshots that were taken of only the pod that we were doing work on. When you do that it messes the pod-to-pod replication up badly. Inside the pod, the LOCAL is fine.. the GLOBAL does break though. I have now done the same in the lab where I took powered off snaps of only one site and reverted and the global replication broke there too.
The seizing of the schema master also does not work. I tried that too and when the pods have lost their head so to speak, the grab does not happen.