DescriptionJoseph Shraibman
2007-03-18 21:46:15 UTC
Description of problem:
When booting I get dropped into singe user mode when init reads fstab to mount
directories because the multipath entries in /dev don't exist. Once I enter the
root password I can mount the directories because at that point the devices to
exist.
Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable):
device-mapper-multipath-0.4.5-16.1.RHEL4
How reproducible:
All the time
Steps to Reproduce:
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Actual results:
Expected results:
Additional info:
To work around I added _netdev to the options in fstab
Which multipath entries are you using?
/dev/dm-* names are not guaranteed to be unique across reboots and should never
be used. They are also created by udev and not guaranteed to exist immediately
after device creation.
/dev/mpath/* names are unique, but are also created by udev and not guaranteed
to exist immediately after device creation. They should not be used in things
like /etc/fstab
/dev/mapper/* names are created by device-mapper, and exist immediately after
the device is created.
If you are not using /dev/mapper/* names in /etc/fstab, try switching to them
and let me know if this fixes the problem for you.