Bug#586182:

2010-07-08 Thread vincent.mcint...@csiro.au
The issue on this particular system is that the binding file resides on /var which isn't available early enough for /etc/init.d/multipath-tools-boot. In that case the paths got assigned new names during each boot which causes the problem. A workaround is to use the multipath-tools-boot package

Bug#586182: multipath-tools: sometimes fails to create /dev/mapper/mpathN devices

2010-07-08 Thread Guido Günther
Tags 586182 +fixed-upstream thanks On Thu, Jun 17, 2010 at 05:19:00PM +1000, Vincent McIntyre wrote: > Package: multipath-tools > Version: 0.4.8-14+lenny2 > Severity: normal > > *** Please type your report below this line *** > > Sometimes, multipath-tools does not create all the /dev/mapper/mpa

Bug#586182: multipath-tools: sometimes fails to create /dev/mapper/mpathN devices

2010-06-17 Thread Guido Günther
On Thu, Jun 17, 2010 at 02:57:17PM +0530, Ritesh Raj Sarraf wrote: > The maintainer for multipath-tools should be able to give you more > information > but in my experience, the friendly_names feature of multipath-tools have > turned out to be more of a problem. > > I believe there is a bug tha

Bug#586182: multipath-tools: sometimes fails to create /dev/mapper/mpathN devices

2010-06-17 Thread Ritesh Raj Sarraf
The maintainer for multipath-tools should be able to give you more information but in my experience, the friendly_names feature of multipath-tools have turned out to be more of a problem. I believe there is a bug that talks about a locking issue with friendly_names upstream. In face, I have be

Bug#586182: multipath-tools: sometimes fails to create /dev/mapper/mpathN devices

2010-06-17 Thread Vincent McIntyre
Package: multipath-tools Version: 0.4.8-14+lenny2 Severity: normal *** Please type your report below this line *** Sometimes, multipath-tools does not create all the /dev/mapper/mpathN devices one is expecting it to create. This seems to occur if there more than two multipathed devices. I have