From Bugzilla Helper: User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.7.9) Gecko/20050715 Firefox/1.0.5 Description of problem: If you're running a server that doesn't have any IDE drives multipath[d] will fail to startup because the regex intended to blacklist those drives is wrong. The errors messages given will be... [root@dl380-02 ~]# multipath -v 3 fd0 blacklisted path hda not found in pathvec ===== path hda ===== bus = 2 dev_t = 3:0 size = 8388604 failed to open /dev/hda The regex in the supplied config file is.... devnode "^hd[a-z][[0-9]*]" I've changed it to devnode "^hd[a-z][0-9]*" which works in our environment. Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable): How reproducible: Always Steps to Reproduce: On a server with no IDE drives, run multipath -v 3 I was using a HP DL380 Additional info:
I changed the multipath.conf blacklist values to match the compiled in values for the multipath-tools. These are "^(ram|raw|loop|fd|md|dm-|sr|scd|st)[0-9]*" "^hd[a-z]" "^cciss!c[0-9]d[0-9]*" If you could verify that your problem is fixed with these values, that would be very helpful.
Yup that works fine. Thanks