Bug 174367

Summary: rc.sysinit multipath needs to be multipath.static
Product: Red Hat Enterprise Linux 4 Reporter: Jeff Thomas <jeff>
Component: initscriptsAssignee: Bill Nottingham <notting>
Status: CLOSED DUPLICATE QA Contact: Brock Organ <borgan>
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Version: 4.0CC: rvokal
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Patch for /etc/rc.d/rc.sysinit none

Description Jeff Thomas 2005-11-28 16:14:53 UTC 
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Description of problem:
/etc/rc.d/rc.sysinit should use /sbin/multipath.static instead of /sbin/multipath to set up multipath devices at boot. The /sbin/multipath binary uses a shared library which is installed in /usr/lib, which will not be mounted yet if /usr is not the same filesystem as /root. This causes the multipath invocation to fail, which causes multipath devices to not get set up early enough for the filesystems to get mounted.

The same may be true of /sbin/dmraid although I have not tested this, there is a /sbin/dmraid.static so it may make sense to make this change as well.


Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable):
initscripts-7.93.20.EL-1

How reproducible:
Always

Steps to Reproduce:
1. Install with /usr a different filesystem than /
2. Set up a multipath device
3. Reboot, note loader error at boot, and multipath device missing from /dev/mapper

  

Additional info:
Comment 1 Jeff Thomas 2005-11-28 16:17:29 UTC 
Created attachment 121553 [details]
Patch for /etc/rc.d/rc.sysinit
Comment 2 Bill Nottingham 2005-11-28 19:38:24 UTC 

*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of 168321 ***