Looks like this call to multipath(8) in the udev rules was added quite a while ago. I'm not sure where to go from here; our hardy machines don't exhibit this behavior, and I'm not sure what's generating the events or how to break the loop short of commenting out the udev rule action.
multipath-tools (0.4.8-11) unstable; urgency=low [...] * [4f8a5d1] Call multipath via udev on block device add/change events This helps slow devices when either /etc/init.d/multipath-tools-boot or the initramfs script are being run although the devices are not ready yet. (Closes: #489850) - many thanks to Janusz Dziemidowicz for his suggestions and testing [...] -- Guido Guenther <a...@sigxcpu.org> Wed, 30 Jul 2008 17:59:03 -0400 -- constantly changes /dev/disk/by-id/{scsi,wwn}-* LUN symlinks with multipathing https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/644489 You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list ubuntu-bugs@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs