From Bugzilla Helper: User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.7.12) Gecko/20050923 Fedora/1.7.12-1.5.1 Description of problem: When the device-mapper-multipath package is installed, /etc/rc.d/rc.sysinit tries to start /sbin/multipath. /sbin/multipath fails, because it needs to load libsysfs.so.1, which is located in the /usr filesystem. The /usr filesystem is not mounted at this time, only the root filesystem is. Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable): initscripts-7.93.20.EL How reproducible: Always Steps to Reproduce: 1. Install RHEL4 U2 with a separate /usr filesystem 2. Install device-mapper-multipath 3. Reboot and watch output Actual Results: /sbin/multipath fails and complains about missing libsysfs.so.1 Expected Results: /sbin/multipath should work with error message and actually do it's job. Additional info: You need to run /sbin/multipath.static instead of /sbin/multipath, just like you do with the lvm commands. /sbin/multipath.static is already there, you just need to fix the /etc/rc.d/rc.sysinit.
*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of 168321 ***