Bug 1179728

Summary: multipath needs to support kernel command line wwids in RHEL6
Product: Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6 Reporter: Jan Kurik <jkurik>
Component: device-mapper-multipathAssignee: Ben Marzinski <bmarzins>
Status: CLOSED ERRATA QA Contact: yanfu,wang <yanwang>
Severity: unspecified Docs Contact:
Priority: urgent    
Version: 6.6CC: agk, bmarzins, bmcclain, cshao, dwysocha, fdeutsch, hadong, heinzm, jsvarova, leiwang, lilu, msnitzer, pm-eus, prajnoha, prockai, rbalakri, tlavigne, yanwang, ycui, zkabelac
Target Milestone: rcKeywords: ZStream
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Fixed In Version: device-mapper-multipath-0.4.9-80.el6_6.2 Doc Type: Bug Fix
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Previously, the first time the multipath utility recognized a path device, the path device was not claimed in the udev utility, and other programs could race multipath to claim it. As a consequence, multipath systems could fail to boot during installation. With this update, the multipathd daemon now checks the kernel command line on startup. If it has recognized any parameters with a World Wide Identifier (WWID) value, it adds those WWIDs to the list of multipath WWIDs. Devices with those WWIDs are thus claimed the first time they are recognized. As a result, if multipath systems do not boot successfully during installation, users can add mpath.wwid=[WWID] to the kernel command line to work around the problem.
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Clone Of: 1175888 Environment:
Last Closed: 2015-01-14 12:22:55 UTC Type: ---
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Bug Depends On: 1175888    
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Description Jan Kurik 2015-01-07 12:29:36 UTC
This bug has been copied from bug #1175888 and has been proposed
to be backported to 6.6 z-stream (EUS).

Comment 3 Ben Marzinski 2015-01-07 18:39:14 UTC
Fix backported.

Comment 7 errata-xmlrpc 2015-01-14 12:22:55 UTC
Since the problem described in this bug report should be
resolved in a recent advisory, it has been closed with a
resolution of ERRATA.

For information on the advisory, and where to find the updated
files, follow the link below.

If the solution does not work for you, open a new bug report.

https://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHBA-2015-0050.html