Description of problem: "service multipathd stop" gives error message when root filesystem is on a physical partition Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable): device-mapper-multipath-0.4.7-30.el5 How reproducible: Always Steps to Reproduce: 1. Run multipathd on a system whose root filesystem is on a local physical partition (e.g., /dev/sda2). 2. Run "service multipathd stop". Actual results: # service multipathd stop Device /dev/sda2 not found Command failed Stopping multipathd daemon: [ OK ] Expected results: # service multipathd stop Stopping multipathd daemon: [ OK ] Additional info: The error message appears to be benign. Because the root filesystem is not on a multipathed or LVM device, there is nothing that "service multipathd stop" needs to do. The error can be suppressed by changing the following line in the stop function of /etc/init.d/multipathd: dm_num=`dmsetup info -c --noheadings -o minor $root_dev` to: dm_num=`dmsetup info -c --noheadings -o minor $root_dev 2>/dev/null`
*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of bug 502128 ***