[Bug 1020436] Re: Cannot read superblock after FC multipath failover

2012-07-09 Thread Peter Petrakis
guide/multipath-devices.html #multipath-devices-in-logical-volumes ** Changed in: multipath-tools (Ubuntu) Assignee: (unassigned) => Peter Petrakis (peter-petrakis) ** Changed in: multipath-tools (Ubuntu) Status: New => Incomplete -- You received this bug notification because you a

[Bug 1013724] Re: Setting "prio const" in multipath.conf has no effect

2012-07-09 Thread Peter Petrakis
ath-tools (Ubuntu) Assignee: (unassigned) => Peter Petrakis (peter-petrakis) -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Server Team, which is subscribed to multipath-tools in Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1013724 Title: Setting "pri

[Bug 803554] Re: upgrading to multipath 0.4.9 presents incompatible config file changes

2012-07-09 Thread Peter Petrakis
This has been resolved by updating the documentation in the serverguide. https://help.ubuntu.com/12.04/serverguide/device-mapper- multipathing.html#multipath-new-and-changed-features ** Changed in: multipath-tools (Ubuntu) Status: Confirmed => Fix Released -- You received this bug notif

[Bug 927540] Re: multipath ignores blacklist in multipath.conf

2012-07-09 Thread Peter Petrakis
ready running `-+- policy='round-robin 0' prio=1 status=enabled |- 2:0:1:0 sdd 8:48 active ready running `- 5:0:1:0 sde 8:64 active ready running ** Changed in: multipath-tools (Ubuntu) Status: Confirmed => Incomplete ** Changed in: multipath-tools (Ubuntu) Assignee

[Bug 585027] Re: Race condition with dmsetup causes 'map already present' messages

2012-07-09 Thread Peter Petrakis
In examining the ioctl interface to device mapper (kernel), I have not found any architecture that assures that when a device mapper device has been marked for deletion, that this information is relayed back to userspace so it can block on this deletion. An example will clarify things. In SD we

[Bug 585027] Re: Race condition with dmsetup causes 'map already present' messages

2012-07-09 Thread Peter Petrakis
Should really be won't fix but I apparently can't set it. -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Server Team, which is subscribed to multipath-tools in Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/585027 Title: Race condition with dmsetup causes 'map already presen

[Bug 585027] Re: Race condition with dmsetup causes 'map already present' messages

2012-07-09 Thread Peter Petrakis
@Alasdair It's buried in the description: "We were attempting variants of 'while true; do sudo multipath -F; sudo multipath -v4 ; done' to create a set of udev add/remove events and noticed that shortly after starting, no output appeared within the 'udevadm monitor' command." So it appears that

[Bug 585027] Re: Race condition with dmsetup causes 'map already present' messages

2012-07-09 Thread Peter Petrakis
So when this bug was first reported we were using multipath 0.4.8, it doesn't appear to have this cookie mechanism. 0.4.9 does (oneiric and higher); I have been unable to reproduce the issue with 0.4.9. Going back through the logs... """ >From 8d63b33d0996e141a2451df552b062b908db15bc Mon Sep 17 0

[Bug 1020436] Re: Cannot read superblock after FC multipath failover

2012-07-10 Thread Peter Petrakis
Your blacklist definition is wrong. You provided. """ blacklist { wwid "3600605b0039afe20ff54052e7d38" vendor "SMART" product "SMART" } defaults { user_friendly_names yes } """ wwid cites an entire device, vendor & product cite a different device and must b

[Bug 1013724] Re: Setting "prio const" in multipath.conf has no effect

2012-07-10 Thread Peter Petrakis
If your device is mounted, you won't be able to flush it, flush == destroy. OK. so it's not just you, I can recreate this. Coincidentally, I also have an HP RAID controller and see the same warning message. This device *is blacklisted* but apparently it's still getting probed. Shouldn't be causin

[Bug 1020436] Re: Cannot read superblock after FC multipath failover

2012-07-13 Thread Peter Petrakis
** Changed in: multipath-tools (Ubuntu) Status: Incomplete => Confirmed -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Server Team, which is subscribed to multipath-tools in Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1020436 Title: Cannot read superblock after FC

[Bug 1020436] Re: Cannot read superblock after FC multipath failover

2012-07-13 Thread Peter Petrakis
Thanks for all the feedback, there's quite a bit of information here to sort through. In the meanwhile, it would be an interesting data point to see how well this array functions under multipath 0.4.9, which is what Precise, the new LTS uses. This can be accomplished by using apt pinning. http

[Bug 1020436] Re: Cannot read superblock after FC multipath failover

2012-07-18 Thread Peter Petrakis
Alrighty. [OK] lvm.conf device blacklist [OK] multipath.conf, sans fix I already pointed out You can ignore that FW blurb, it's just a script that shouldn't be so noisy. failover logs *look good* bug-1020436$ grep fail_path multipathd_stdout.log | sort -u Jul 10 15:08:25 | libdevmapper: ioctl/li

[Bug 585027] Re: Race condition with dmsetup causes 'map already present' messages

2012-07-18 Thread Peter Petrakis
Retested on precise base and downgraded to multipath-tools 0.4.8-14ubuntu4 on generic 3.2.0.27.29. Ran unit test for several hours, no fault found. Intend to downgrade to lucid kernel and retest, hopefully it pops then, save me the trouble of installing lucid somewhere. -- You received this bug

[Bug 585027] Re: Race condition with dmsetup causes 'map already present' messages

2012-07-19 Thread Peter Petrakis
Using the lucid kernel, I was able to reproduce, though it took a lot longer than original report implied, easily over an hour, probably more than 3 I wasn't watching it the entire time. multipath-tools 0.4.8-14ubuntu4.10.04.2 kernel 2.6.32-41-generic udevadm monitor simply stops responding.

[Bug 585027] Re: Race condition with dmsetup causes 'map already present' messages

2012-07-19 Thread Peter Petrakis
** Changed in: multipath-tools (Ubuntu) Status: Invalid => Confirmed -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Server Team, which is subscribed to multipath-tools in Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/585027 Title: Race condition with dmsetup causes '

[Bug 1020436] Re: Cannot read superblock after FC multipath failover

2012-07-23 Thread Peter Petrakis
Hmm, we've got some counter indicators here. lvs claims that the volumes are active. But the probe itself is showing problems reading the volumes. XFS is telling us that it cannot write it's journal to disk. [1039812.311433] Filesystem "dm-4": Log I/O Error Detected. Shutting down filesystem: dm

[Bug 1020436] Re: Cannot read superblock after FC multipath failover

2012-07-23 Thread Peter Petrakis
scratch the ext3 test, I just re-read the description. "I've replicated this behaviour using both xfs and ext4 filesystems, on multiple different luns presented to the server." -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Server Team, which is subscribed to multipath-

[Bug 1020436] Re: Cannot read superblock after FC multipath failover

2012-07-24 Thread Peter Petrakis
It doesn't look like your lvm.conf filter is working. (pvdisplay) /dev/sdb: block size is 4096 bytes /dev/sdb: lvm2 label detected Ignoring duplicate PV RLOhdDURbD7uK2La3MDK2olkP0BF2Tu7 on /dev/sdb - using dm /dev/mapper/mpath0 Closed /dev/sdb Opened /dev/sdc

[Bug 1020436] Re: Cannot read superblock after FC multipath failover

2012-07-27 Thread Peter Petrakis
** Changed in: multipath-tools (Ubuntu) Status: Incomplete => Invalid -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Server Team, which is subscribed to multipath-tools in Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1020436 Title: Cannot read superblock after FC mu

[Bug 1020436] Re: Cannot read superblock after FC multipath failover

2012-07-27 Thread Peter Petrakis
Could you please file a new bug against LVM/lucid (just add a tag 'lucid') detailing this behavior? Thanks. I've never been a fan of LVM's filtering mechanism, then again the source is there, I could do something about it :) What you described here: """ However as soon as I use something like:

[Bug 1030040] Re: multipath-tools create duplicate device

2012-07-27 Thread Peter Petrakis
** Changed in: multipath-tools (Ubuntu) Status: New => Incomplete ** Changed in: multipath-tools (Ubuntu) Assignee: (unassigned) => Peter Petrakis (peter-petrakis) -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Server Team, which is subscribed to multipath

[Bug 927540] Re: multipath ignores blacklist in multipath.conf

2012-07-27 Thread Peter Petrakis
@gheeke Did you try the alternate config file style I proposed in comment #5? Thanks. -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Server Team, which is subscribed to multipath-tools in Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/927540 Title: multipath ignores blackli

[Bug 1030040] Re: multipath-tools create duplicate device

2012-07-30 Thread Peter Petrakis
Hmm, A reproduction case is going to be necessary, there are some weird things going on in syslog.2 which I'm unfamiliar with. Unfortunately, I don't have access to a symmetrix either. I really need to have multipathd running in the foreground, with full logging to a file, to catch what went down.

[Bug 1030040] Re: multipath-tools create duplicate device

2012-07-31 Thread Peter Petrakis
** Changed in: multipath-tools (Ubuntu) Status: Incomplete => Invalid -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Server Team, which is subscribed to multipath-tools in Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1030040 Title: multipath-tools create duplicate d

[Bug 1032550] Re: [multipath] failed to get sysfs information

2012-08-03 Thread Peter Petrakis
** Changed in: multipath-tools (Ubuntu) Assignee: (unassigned) => Peter Petrakis (peter-petrakis) -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Server Team, which is subscribed to multipath-tools in Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1032550 Ti

[Bug 1032550] Re: [multipath] failed to get sysfs information

2012-08-03 Thread Peter Petrakis
@Vincent Could you please attach the syslog associated with this fault? How reproducible is this? Also I noticed that your lvm.conf is a little broken. scan = [ "/dev" ] ... filter = [ "r/block/", "r/disk/", "r|/dev/sd.*|", "a/.*/" ] Since the scan starts in /dev, that's the root of the

[Bug 1032550] Re: [multipath] failed to get sysfs information

2012-08-07 Thread Peter Petrakis
** Changed in: multipath-tools (Ubuntu) Status: Incomplete => In Progress -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Server Team, which is subscribed to multipath-tools in Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1032550 Title: [multipath] failed to get sys

[Bug 1030040] Re: multipath-tools create duplicate device

2012-08-17 Thread Peter Petrakis
@Vincent: I thought you asked for this case to be closed? Did you mean to update another bug? -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Server Team, which is subscribed to multipath-tools in Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1030040 Title: multipath-tools c

[Bug 1032550] Re: [multipath] failed to get sysfs information

2012-08-17 Thread Peter Petrakis
@Vincent I have a test package for you to try. Add this ppa, https://launchpad.net/~peter-petrakis/+archive/storage The install incantation should be: apt-get install multipath-tools=0.4.9-3ubuntu5+lp1032250dbg1 It includes a fix to the state checker which *should* eliminate the sysfs

[Bug 1032550] Re: [multipath] failed to get sysfs information

2012-08-22 Thread Peter Petrakis
So you restarted multipath-tools or rebooted before testing again? I was afraid of this, the RH patch isn't even upstream and was applied against a different code base. There may be additional patches that have a cumulative effect that we're missing. -- You received this bug notification becaus

[Bug 1057054] Re: poor performance after upgrade to Precise

2012-09-26 Thread Peter Petrakis
Have you verified that the rdac driver is loaded? Also please account for the contents of /etc/initramfs-tools/modules, scsi_dh_rdac must be loaded at boot time to be discovered correctly. ** Changed in: multipath-tools (Ubuntu) Status: New => Incomplete -- You received this bug notifica

[Bug 1057054] Re: poor performance after upgrade to Precise

2012-09-26 Thread Peter Petrakis
That's never how it works. multipath has no kernel module loading ability. Would make a nice feature though. I admit that discovering "which dh is the necessary one" is a bit arcane and not well documented anywhere. The best practice here is to load the necessary device handler into your initrd s

[Bug 1057054] Re: poor performance after upgrade to Precise

2012-09-26 Thread Peter Petrakis
There is no feature, that has ever existed, that has the capacity to *at runtime* examine all attached disks, and cross reference their SCSI INQUIRY data to a table of available device handlers. That table does not exist, if it did, it would be miserable to maintain. I checked the udev rules and

[Bug 1057054] Re: poor performance after upgrade to Precise

2012-09-26 Thread Peter Petrakis
Hmm, that's interesting, does that mean that after reboot scsi_dh_rdac is loaded? Please verify. Yes, it is available with the lucid kernel. Also note that if you were to reference your vendor documentation, it would probably recommend that you load rdac driver (been around for a long time actu

[Bug 1057054] Re: poor performance after upgrade to Precise

2012-09-26 Thread Peter Petrakis
Then we might have a distro bug here, which is weird as I've done hundreds of SAN installs with lucid and have had to manage the scsi_dh modules everytime. So on your lucid system, /etc/initramfs-tools/modules should be empty except for the commented out examples. The next thing to check is the

[Bug 1057054] Re: poor performance after upgrade to Precise

2012-09-26 Thread Peter Petrakis
There's nothing in any of the priority checkers except scsi cmds. See for yourself. bzr+ssh://bazaar.launchpad.net/+branch/ubuntu/lucid/multipath-tools/ path_priority/pp_rdac/pp_rdac.c -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Server Team, which is subscribed to

[Bug 1057054] Re: poor performance after upgrade to Precise

2012-09-27 Thread Peter Petrakis
Then the only possible actors left are the actual initramdisk contents e.g. zcat | cpio -id and examine all the scripts (init, conf/modules) to determine how it could be loaded. The absence of the module reference in all of /etc and /usr/share/initramfs-tools/ tell me that whatever is loading th

[Bug 927540] Re: multipath ignores blacklist in multipath.conf

2012-10-04 Thread Peter Petrakis
That devnode line is actually part of the default in memory config, see libmultipath/blacklist.c#setup_default_blist. So try dropping that. Just try and keep you multpath.conf as simple as possible, to even *one* directive, test and record, then iterate until you start to see it break. It's best

[Bug 927540] Re: multipath ignores blacklist in multipath.conf

2012-10-09 Thread Peter Petrakis
That's actually a good point Lukasz, one that I assume folks get by reading the multipath guide first. https://help.ubuntu.com/12.04/serverguide/multipath-devices.html Whenever you use blacklists, in either lvm or multipath, you must update the initramfs so those config files are copied to the ra

[Blueprint servercloud-r-kdump-tool] Enable kdump mechanism from kdump-tool instead of kexec-tools

2012-10-24 Thread Peter Petrakis
Blueprint changed by Peter Petrakis: Work items set to: Work items: Integrate netdump support: TODO netdump charm to aggregate dumps in a cloud: TODO -- Enable kdump mechanism from kdump-tool instead of kexec-tools https://blueprints.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+spec/servercloud-r-kdump-tool

[Bug 1073948] [NEW] CryptographicSourceVerification wiki has syntax errors

2012-11-01 Thread Peter Petrakis
Public bug reported: https://juju.ubuntu.com/CryptographicSourceVerification The snippet that makes use of the charm-helpers ppa is off, it won't function as a copy/paste. The PPA name may be plural but the contents of it are not. This is correct: apt-get -qqy charm-helper-sh # loading hel

[Bug 927540] Re: multipath ignores blacklist in multipath.conf

2012-11-21 Thread Peter Petrakis
Considering the time past and that I'm convinced that this is a user configuration issue (Support) that should be addressed by comment #11, I'm closing this issue as Invalid. ** Changed in: multipath-tools (Ubuntu) Status: Incomplete => Invalid -- You received this bug notification bec

[Bug 1032550] Re: [multipath] failed to get sysfs information

2012-12-10 Thread Peter Petrakis
What I really need is a crashdump. I'm simply short on time to reproduce this myself. https://wiki.ubuntu.com/Kernel/CrashdumpRecipe Configure sysctl to panic on oops, that should do it. This stack section is interesting. Dec 9 09:18:27 ealxs00195 kernel: [1726974.078795] RIP: 0010:[] [] _ra

[Bug 1032550] Re: [multipath] failed to get sysfs information

2012-12-11 Thread Peter Petrakis
I should have been more specific, please set kernel.hung_task_panic as well, which should trigger on the "blocked more than N sec" events. Also, if you still have the system in this state. Does ps | aux show a series of kpartx processes blocked? -- You received this bug notification because yo

[Bug 1032550] Re: [multipath] failed to get sysfs information

2012-12-13 Thread Peter Petrakis
hmm, try this. kernel.panic_on_oops = 0 kernel.softlockup_panic = 0 kernel.unknown_nmi_panic = 0 kernel.panic_on_unrecovered_nmi = 0 kernel.panic_on_io_nmi = 0 kernel.hung_task_panic = 0 Make sure these are all set to 1 in /etc/sysctl.conf and then run sysctl -p Also, lets configure ftrace, see

[Bug 1032550] Re: [multipath] failed to get sysfs information

2012-12-20 Thread Peter Petrakis
Hi Ronald, Sorry I haven't been timely, this is the best I can do with community level support If kdump isn't launching even in the most trivial case then you have to start from zero. is crashkernel even configured? * grep crash /proc/crashkernel How much memory do you have, could you assi

[Bug 1032550] Re: [multipath] failed to get sysfs information

2012-12-20 Thread Peter Petrakis
Correction: is crashkernel even configured? * grep crash /proc/cmdline -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Server Team, which is subscribed to multipath-tools in Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1032550 Title: [multipath] failed to get sysfs inform

[Bug 1032550] Re: [multipath] failed to get sysfs information

2012-12-20 Thread Peter Petrakis
^5! Make sure you enable ftrace per: https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/multipath-tools/+bug/1032550/comments/16 That'll save me a lot of work, should crash with a nice long call graph and the CPUs caught executing the code. Well done! -- You received this bug notification because you

[Bug 1032550] Re: [multipath] failed to get sysfs information

2012-12-21 Thread Peter Petrakis
@Ronald First, please attach http://www.rmoesbergen.nl/vmcore-crash.tgz to the bug, launchpad can handle it just fine. Also, this is going to take awhile. We're off all next week so don't expect any movement on this until early-mid Jan. Feel free to ping me if I forget. Also, at what time did

[Bug 1135453] Re: open-iscsi +mpio with multipathd init script order errors

2013-03-18 Thread Peter Petrakis
** Changed in: multipath-tools (Ubuntu) Assignee: (unassigned) => Peter Petrakis (peter-petrakis) -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Server Team, which is subscribed to multipath-tools in Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1135453 Title: o

[Bug 1135453] Re: open-iscsi +mpio with multipathd init script order errors

2013-03-18 Thread Peter Petrakis
This might be self inflicted. First, we have really good multipath documentation now. You're better off following our docs first and then supplementing it with the vendor docs if it doesn't work. Many popular SANs have built-in support. https://help.ubuntu.com/12.04/serverguide/dm-multipath-chap

[Bug 1135453] Re: open-iscsi +mpio with multipathd init script order errors

2013-03-19 Thread Peter Petrakis
** Changed in: multipath-tools (Ubuntu) Status: New => Incomplete -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Server Team, which is subscribed to multipath-tools in Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1135453 Title: open-iscsi +mpio with multipathd init

[Bug 1178721] Re: multipathd fails to create mappings when multipath.conf is present

2013-05-10 Thread Peter Petrakis
https://help.ubuntu.com/12.10/serverguide/multipath-devices.html You cannot have a default LVM config co-exist with multipath. They will race to grab the SD device for map creation and whoever gets there first wins; they both use device mapper. LVM is configured using UDEV so it's the first pass,

[Bug 1178721] Re: multipathd fails to create mappings when multipath.conf is present

2013-06-11 Thread Peter Petrakis
** Changed in: multipath-tools (Ubuntu) Status: Triaged => Invalid -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Server Team, which is subscribed to multipath-tools in Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1178721 Title: multipathd fails to create mappings w

Re: [Bug 1178721] Re: multipathd fails to create mappings when multipath.conf is present

2013-06-11 Thread Peter Petrakis
At this point I would seriously consider obtaining commercial support. This is clearly a support issue and not a bug and has been closed as invalid. LVM could have easier to grok filtering but it does work, you just have to get creative by changing the scan directory. For example: UNTESTED scan

[Bug 1197448] Re: having multipath-tools installed prevents mounting of USB card reader

2013-07-03 Thread Peter Petrakis
multipath-tools will grab any devices that are not excluded by the filtering directives in multipath.conf. It's a lot like lvm.conf. The operating system has no idea what these devices will be used for, you must direct it explicitly. https://help.ubuntu.com/lts/serverguide/multipath-dm-multipath

[Bug 1217933] Re: update-grub fails to detect other md OS

2013-08-28 Thread Peter Petrakis
Why do you think this is a multipath problem and not an mdadm problem? -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Server Team, which is subscribed to multipath-tools in Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1217933 Title: update-grub fails to detect other md OS

[Bug 1217933] Re: update-grub fails to detect other md OS

2013-08-28 Thread Peter Petrakis
not a multipath issue ** Package changed: multipath-tools (Ubuntu) => grub2 (Ubuntu) -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Server Team, which is subscribed to multipath-tools in Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1217933 Title: update-grub fails to dete

[Bug 1217933] Re: update-grub fails to detect other md OS

2013-08-28 Thread Peter Petrakis
Right. multipath is for SANs, not RAIDs. Seeing that both of your arrays are up and running however implies a grub configuration problem. Moving... -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Server Team, which is subscribed to multipath-tools in Ubuntu. https://bugs

[Bug 716659] Re: Root filesystem goes "Read only" after installing multipath-tools on Lucid

2011-03-01 Thread Peter Petrakis
>From examining the output and can see why the blacklist was defined in this manner, and how to correct it. Also, since the luns are reporting themselves as DGC, specifying a configuration for SYMMETRIX just won't work. Clarion and Symmetrix are completely different animals from what I gather. A

[Bug 716659] Re: Root filesystem goes "Read only" after installing multipath-tools on Lucid

2011-04-05 Thread Peter Petrakis
** Changed in: multipath-tools (Ubuntu) Assignee: (unassigned) => Ubuntu Storage Development Team (ubuntu-storage-dev) ** Summary changed: - Root filesystem goes "Read only" after installing multipath-tools on Lucid + [EMC Clarion] - Root filesystem goes "Read only" after installing multip

[Bug 788326] Re: Ubuntu 10.04 LTS guest did not boot after install

2011-05-25 Thread Peter Petrakis
** Visibility changed to: Private -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Server Team, which is a direct subscriber. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/788326 Title: Ubuntu 10.04 LTS guest did not boot after install -- Ubuntu-server-bugs mailing list Ubuntu-serv

[Bug 644489] Re: constantly changes /dev/disk/by-id/{scsi, wwn}-* LUN symlinks with multipathing

2011-06-13 Thread Peter Petrakis
We had another incident of this fault, but with an EMC Clariion CX4-120. After eliminating LVM, and moving to a default MP config. It wasn't until we removed the "change" rule to the 95-multipath.tools script that the udev error messages ceased. I'm convinced that this approach for the boot scripts

[Bug 644489] Re: constantly changes /dev/disk/by-id/{scsi, wwn}-* LUN symlinks with multipathing

2011-06-17 Thread Peter Petrakis
@John, I've got a test for you. - stop multipathd: service multipath-tools stop - monitor udev events as root: udevadm monitor There should be no new change events. then in a separate terminal, as root run: /sbin/mpath_prio_netapp /dev/sdb (or any netapp device) do you see a change event each

[Bug 644489] Re: constantly changes /dev/disk/by-id/{scsi, wwn}-* LUN symlinks with multipathing

2011-06-18 Thread Peter Petrakis
Excellent, you're still interested. I've got a fix for you to try. Attached is a custom version of mpath_prio_netapp that should not generate any more change events for you. Please post for comparison that this new version returns the same data as the old one. move the old mpath_prio_netapp to /sb

[Bug 644489] Re: constantly changes /dev/disk/by-id/{scsi, wwn}-* LUN symlinks with multipathing

2011-06-19 Thread Peter Petrakis
I can understand that. Attached is a debdiff of the updated package. I must stress that may not be the final form of the solution. I'm chatting with Douglas Gilbert (sg io maintainer) now about this. So far it appears that using an SD device as the target for sg io can have unintended side effects,

[Bug 644489] Re: constantly changes /dev/disk/by-id/{scsi, wwn}-* LUN symlinks with multipathing

2011-06-21 Thread Peter Petrakis
** Changed in: multipath-tools (Ubuntu) Status: Confirmed => In Progress ** Changed in: udev (Ubuntu) Status: New => Invalid -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Server Team, which is subscribed to multipath-tools in Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpa

[Bug 644489] Re: constantly changes /dev/disk/by-id/{scsi, wwn}-* LUN symlinks with multipathing

2011-06-21 Thread Peter Petrakis
After chatting with Douglas Gilbert on this I know have a better understanding of the problem. This very issue has been raised by him before on linux-scsi and it never saw final resolution. http://kerneltrap.org/mailarchive/linux-scsi/2010/2/15/6778453 When the file descriptor to the SD device is

[Bug 644489] Re: constantly changes /dev/disk/by-id/{scsi, wwn}-* LUN symlinks with multipathing

2011-06-21 Thread Peter Petrakis
** Changed in: multipath-tools (Ubuntu) Status: In Progress => Fix Released -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Server Team, which is subscribed to multipath-tools in Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/644489 Title: constantly changes /dev/disk/

[Bug 644489] Re: constantly changes /dev/disk/by-id/{scsi, wwn}-* LUN symlinks with multipathing

2011-06-21 Thread Peter Petrakis
also affects udev should be removed. ** Changed in: udev (Ubuntu Lucid) Status: New => Invalid ** Changed in: udev (Ubuntu Maverick) Status: New => Invalid ** Changed in: udev (Ubuntu Natty) Status: New => Invalid ** Package changed: udev (Ubuntu) => ubuntu ** Description

[Bug 644489] Re: constantly changes /dev/disk/by-id/{scsi, wwn}-* LUN symlinks with multipathing

2011-06-21 Thread Peter Petrakis
** Changed in: ubuntu Status: Invalid => Confirmed ** Changed in: Ubuntu Lucid Status: Invalid => Confirmed ** Changed in: Ubuntu Maverick Status: Invalid => Confirmed ** Changed in: Ubuntu Natty Status: Invalid => Confirmed -- You received this bug notification bec

[Bug 571093] Re: [SRU] multipath + libvirtd eats away more memory over time

2011-06-23 Thread Peter Petrakis
@All, The stream of udev change events you've observed has been fixed in multipath itself by this update. https://launchpad.net/~peter-petrakis/+archive/storage It's been proposed for SRU on behalf of (LP: #644489) Please test and verify that the change events cease. So we can rec

[Bug 716659] Re: [EMC Clarion] - Root filesystem goes "Read only" after installing multipath-tools on Lucid

2011-06-23 Thread Peter Petrakis
@Joe What's the status of this? Is the issue resolved? Thanks. ** Changed in: multipath-tools (Ubuntu) Status: Triaged => Incomplete -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Server Team, which is subscribed to multipath-tools in Ubuntu. https://bugs.launch

[Bug 716659] Re: [EMC Clarion] - Root filesystem goes "Read only" after installing multipath-tools on Lucid

2011-06-23 Thread Peter Petrakis
Moving visibility to private since this is an resolved customer support issue. We can't fix it if they're not willing to work with us. That probably means either remote access or on site troubleshooting. Peter ** Visibility changed to: Private -- You received this bug notification because you a

[Bug 644489] Re: constantly changes /dev/disk/by-id/{scsi, wwn}-* LUN symlinks with multipathing

2011-06-24 Thread Peter Petrakis
@ Martin fix verified, no udev change events generated. root@kickseed:~# udevadm monitor monitor will print the received events for: UDEV - the event which udev sends out after rule processing KERNEL - the kernel uevent ^Z [1]+ Stopped udevadm monitor root@kickseed:~# bg [1]+ ude

[Bug 644489] Re: constantly changes /dev/disk/by-id/{scsi, wwn}-* LUN symlinks with multipathing

2011-06-28 Thread Peter Petrakis
@Clint Maverick verification: no udev change events observed root@kickseed:~# udevadm monitor & [1] 1999 root@kickseed:~# monitor will print the received events for: UDEV - the event which udev sends out after rule processing KERNEL - the kernel uevent root@kickseed:~# for i in /sbin/mpath_prio

[Bug 644489] Re: constantly changes /dev/disk/by-id/{scsi, wwn}-* LUN symlinks with multipathing

2011-06-28 Thread Peter Petrakis
@Clint lucid verification: no udev change events observed NOTE: this issue depends on lp #686832 root@kickseed:~# lsb_release -r Release:10.04 root@kickseed:~# udevadm monitor & [1] 2043 monitor will print the received events for: UDEV - the event which udev sends out after rule processi

Re: [Bug 644489] Re: constantly changes /dev/disk/by-id/{scsi, wwn}-* LUN symlinks with multipathing

2011-06-28 Thread Peter Petrakis
On 06/28/2011 09:30 PM, Serge Hallyn wrote: > Quoting Peter Petrakis (peter.petra...@canonical.com): >> @Clint >> >> lucid verification: no udev change events observed >> NOTE: this issue depends on lp #686832 > > Not strictly though, right? Your setup neede

[Bug 803554] [NEW] upgrading to multipath 0.4.9 presents incompatible config file changes

2011-06-29 Thread Peter Petrakis
Public bug reported: The priority checkers have been converted from individual binaries that callout to dynamically loaded libraries (dlopen). As a result, should a circa 0.4.8 config file remain in place, the priority checker becomes undefined, as that standalone path checker no longer exists. Th

[Bug 916200] Re: missing kernel module ipmi_si module

2012-01-13 Thread Peter Petrakis
We need a full apport collect to see the fall out from loading the module. apport-collect -p linux 916200 Thanks. ** Changed in: ipmitool (Ubuntu) Status: New => Incomplete -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Server Team, which is subscribed to ipmit

[Bug 916200] Re: missing kernel module ipmi_si module

2012-01-17 Thread Peter Petrakis
@Asif Get the apport data any way you can. I merely offered a popular manner to accomplish it. Also, please don't change bug states without justification. The point of Incomplete is part of the bug triage process where a developer has posed a question etc and is waiting for that request to be sati

[Bug 916200] Re: missing kernel module ipmi_si module

2012-01-18 Thread Peter Petrakis
** Changed in: ipmitool (Ubuntu) Status: Incomplete => Confirmed -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Server Team, which is subscribed to ipmitool in Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/916200 Title: missing kernel module ipmi_si module To manage

[Bug 956128] [NEW] find_multipaths feature missing from upstream

2012-03-15 Thread Peter Petrakis
Public bug reported: There's an interesting feature called find_multipaths that was first mentioned here on dm-devel in July 2011. https://www.redhat.com/archives/dm-devel/2011-July/msg00102.html It's now the corner stone of dm multipath configuration in the RHEL 6 DM Multipath configuration gu

[Bug 956128] Re: find_multipaths feature missing from upstream

2012-03-15 Thread Peter Petrakis
** Attachment added: "0021-RHBZ-558636-add-find-multipaths.patch" https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/956128/+attachment/2876175/+files/0021-RHBZ-558636-add-find-multipaths.patch -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Server Team, which is subscribed to multipath

[Bug 985741] Re: multipath can't show device on which is setup lvm

2012-04-27 Thread Peter Petrakis
2:10) a¡±¡±a¡±€mpath5 (252:2) a¡±?a¡±€ (65:16) a¡±¡±a¡±€ (8:96) mpath14-part1 (252:9) Thank you. -- Peter ** Changed in: multipath-tools (Ubuntu) Status: Confirmed => Incomplete ** Changed in: multipath-tools (Ubuntu) Assignee: (unassigned) => Peter Petrakis (peter-petra

[Bug 985741] Re: multipath can't show device on which is setup lvm

2012-04-28 Thread Peter Petrakis
defect. https://help.ubuntu.com/12.04/serverguide/dm-multipath-chapter.html Take care. -- Peter ** Changed in: multipath-tools (Ubuntu) Status: Incomplete => Invalid ** Changed in: multipath-tools (Ubuntu) Assignee: Peter Petrakis (peter-petrakis) => (unassigned) -- You received this bug

[Bug 1032550] Re: [multipath] failed to get sysfs information

2016-03-14 Thread Peter Petrakis
** Changed in: multipath-tools (Ubuntu) Assignee: Peter Petrakis (peter-petrakis) => (unassigned) -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Server Team, which is subscribed to multipath-tools in Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1032550 Ti

[Bug 690387] [NEW] udev block naming breaks failover and sd kref release cycle

2010-12-14 Thread Peter Petrakis
Public bug reported: Binary package hint: multipath-tools This was exposed on the Intel IMS SAN which is an ODM'd Promise Vtrak variant on 10.04 server. The SAN has Active/Standby capabilities and is configured for failover. It probably affects other SANs too. Setup: multipath'd SAN consisting o

[Bug 690387] Re: udev block naming breaks failover and sd kref release cycle

2010-12-14 Thread Peter Petrakis
** Patch added: "0001-Fix-for-uevent-devpath-handling.patch" https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/multipath-tools/+bug/690387/+attachment/1766245/+files/0001-Fix-for-uevent-devpath-handling.patch -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Server Team, which

[Bug 690387] Re: udev block naming breaks failover and sd kref release cycle

2010-12-14 Thread Peter Petrakis
** Description changed: Binary package hint: multipath-tools - This was exposed on the Intel IMS SAN which is an ODM'd Promise Vtrak variant - on 10.04 server. The SAN has Active/Standby capabilities and is configured for failover. - It probably affects other SANs too. + This was exposed on

[Bug 716659] Re: Root filesystem goes "Read only" after installing multipath-tools on Lucid

2011-02-11 Thread Peter Petrakis
A few things, ask the customer to run the command 'multipath -v4' as root after the package install failure so we can see what's going on. There's at least one bug in the multipath.conf 1) scsi_id path is wrong 2) the blacklist regex is suspect 1) Replace all calls to scsi id with: "/lib/udev/s

[Bug 690387] Re: udev block naming breaks failover and sd kref release cycle

2011-07-21 Thread Peter Petrakis
@Serge Yes, fix-released for oneiric I believe natty is covered. The confusion I think is the changelog references this fix from a private bug: multipath-tools (0.4.8-14ubuntu7) natty; urgency=low * Add patch to fix the expected pathname from multipath uevents (LP: #660597) Where this b

[Bug 803554] Re: upgrading to multipath 0.4.9 presents incompatible config file changes

2011-07-22 Thread Peter Petrakis
Experimenting shows that we can have the older config values side by side with the new ones. e.g. ... prio_callout /sbin/mpath_prio_alua /dev/%n prio alua ... multipath doesn't have a rigid config file format, it seems to slurp symbols and then seek the key/value pair out on deman

[Bug 690387] Re: udev block naming breaks failover and sd kref release cycle

2011-07-22 Thread Peter Petrakis
@Clint lucid-proposed looks good. $ apt-cache showpkg multipath-tools Package: multipath-tools Versions: 0.4.8-14ubuntu4.10.04.2 (/var/lib/apt/lists/us.archive.ubuntu.com_ubuntu_dists_lucid-proposed_main_binary-amd64_Packages) (/var/lib/dpkg/status) # multipath -ll 222fb00015553d0d9dm-3 Inte

[Bug 690387] Re: udev block naming breaks failover and sd kref release cycle

2011-07-22 Thread Peter Petrakis
@Clint maverick-proposed looks good. # apt-cache showpkg multipath-tools Package: multipath-tools Versions: 0.4.8-14ubuntu4.10.10.2 (/var/lib/apt/lists/us.archive.ubuntu.com_ubuntu_dists_maverick-proposed_main_binary-amd64_Packages) (/var/lib/dpkg/status) # multipath -ll 222fb00015553d0d9dm-0

[Bug 824790] Re: IBM DS3400 Will Not Bring Up Second Path

2011-08-11 Thread Peter Petrakis
@Joe Please attach the latest multipath.conf and lvm.conf responsible for this stream of messages. If you could move over that logs and other stuff from salesforce into this bug that would be ideal. Thanks. -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Server Team, whi

[Bug 824790] Re: IBM DS3400 Will Not Bring Up Second Path

2011-08-12 Thread Peter Petrakis
So the paths not showing up with a config file error, a few well placed regexp and a proper blacklist to filter out the internal disks solved that. Also added scsi_dh_rdac to initial ramdisk. Now the paths are up, and stay up. However when we tried testing failover using a scsi "delete" of the prim

[Bug 824790] Re: IBM DS3400 Will Not Bring Up Second Path

2011-08-12 Thread Peter Petrakis
** Changed in: multipath-tools (Ubuntu) Assignee: (unassigned) => Ubuntu Storage Development Team (ubuntu-storage-dev) -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Server Team, which is subscribed to multipath-tools in Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/8247

[Bug 824790] Re: IBM DS3400 Will Not Bring Up Second Path

2011-08-15 Thread Peter Petrakis
** Changed in: multipath-tools (Ubuntu) Status: New => Confirmed -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Server Team, which is subscribed to multipath-tools in Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/824790 Title: IBM DS3400 Will Not Bring Up Second Pat

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