Hello Scott, On Monday 15 June 2015 07:17 PM, Scott Moser wrote: > Package: multipath-tools-boot > Version: 0.5.0-6+deb8u1 > Severity: normal > > Dear Maintainer, > > Hi, in debugging an issue on Ubuntu under ubuntu bug 1462530 > (http://pad.lv/1462530), we found that /etc/multipath/bindings needs to be > included in the initramfs. > > The code in /usr/share/initramfs-tools/hooks/multipath will do that, but > only if the file exists. The file is created in normal operation by > the multipath-tools service (/etc/init.d/multipath-tools).
That file is supposed to be created only if the user set friendly names, which would mean create a multipath.conf file. For setups without friendly names, this should be fine. > > However a normall install path of: > apt-get install multipath-tools-boot > > will cause multipath-tools service to be started in the background and will > not > guarantee that the file exists before update-initramfs runs the hooks file to > collect it. Very true. I guess the best resolution to this problem would be to document it in the README.Debian file. > > One possible way of addressing this would be to run 'multipath -r' to force > its > creation. That does possibly have side affects. > > Generally speaking this is an unlikely race condition to hit, but I don't see > anything that guarantees it wont happen. > > > -- Package-specific info: > /etc/multipath.conf does not exist. > > > -- System Information: > Debian Release: 8.0 > APT prefers stable > APT policy: (500, 'stable') > Architecture: amd64 (x86_64) > > Kernel: Linux 3.16.0-4-amd64 (SMP w/1 CPU core) > Locale: LANG=en_US.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=en_US.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8) > Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/dash > Init: systemd (via /run/systemd/system) > > Versions of packages multipath-tools-boot depends on: > ii debconf [debconf-2.0] 1.5.56 > ii initramfs-tools 0.120 > ii multipath-tools 0.5.0-6+deb8u1 > > multipath-tools-boot recommends no packages. > > multipath-tools-boot suggests no packages. > > -- debconf information excluded > -- Ritesh Raj Sarraf | http://people.debian.org/~rrs Debian - The Universal Operating System
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