Bug 1508448
| Summary: | device-mapper-multipath package does not create configuration files properly | ||
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| Product: | Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7 | Reporter: | Michael Watters <wattersm> |
| Component: | device-mapper-multipath | Assignee: | LVM and device-mapper development team <lvm-team> |
| Status: | CLOSED DUPLICATE | QA Contact: | Lin Li <lilin> |
| Severity: | unspecified | Docs Contact: | |
| Priority: | unspecified | ||
| Version: | 7.4 | CC: | agk, bmarzins, heinzm, lilin, msnitzer, prajnoha, thibaut_perrin |
| Target Milestone: | rc | ||
| Target Release: | --- | ||
| Hardware: | x86_64 | ||
| OS: | Linux | ||
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| Last Closed: | 2018-01-04 19:33:04 UTC | Type: | Bug |
| Regression: | --- | Mount Type: | --- |
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Shouldn't you run "mpathconf --enable" instead of just mpathconf to generate the file ? That's what the command --help states : usage: /usr/sbin/mpathconf <command> Commands: Enable: --enable Disable: --disable Running just mpathconf prints what should be setup in the generated multipath.conf file. Or maybe I'm just misreading ? oops. didn't notice this dup. *** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of bug 1508483 *** |
Description of problem: After installing the device-mapper-multipath package the multipathd service will fail to start due to a missing configuration file. systemctl status multipathd.service shows the following output. [root@server ~]# systemctl status multipathd ● multipathd.service - Device-Mapper Multipath Device Controller Loaded: loaded (/usr/lib/systemd/system/multipathd.service; enabled; vendor preset: enabled) Active: inactive (dead) Condition: start condition failed at Wed 2017-11-01 08:36:53 EDT; 4s ago ConditionPathExists=/etc/multipath.conf was not met multipath -l also shows that the configuration file is missing. root@server ~]# multipath -l Nov 01 08:36:02 | DM multipath kernel driver not loaded Nov 01 08:36:02 | /etc/multipath.conf does not exist, blacklisting all devices. Nov 01 08:36:02 | A default multipath.conf file is located at Nov 01 08:36:02 | /usr/share/doc/device-mapper-multipath-0.4.9/multipath.conf Nov 01 08:36:02 | You can run /sbin/mpathconf to create or modify /etc/multipath.conf Nov 01 08:36:02 | DM multipath kernel driver not loaded Running /sbin/mpathconf does not create the file as expected. I was able to get multipathd working after manually loading the dm_multipath module and creating the configuration file by copying from another server. Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable): 0.4.9-111 How reproducible: Steps to Reproduce: 1. yum -y install device-mapper-multipath 2. Run multipath -l or systemctl start multipathd.service Actual results: multipathd.service fails to start. /sbin/mpathconf does not generate a configuration file. Expected results: Configuration file is created automatically. multipathd.service starts with no errors.