multipath-tools missing wwids can cause paths to be ignored on boot

Bug #1479929 reported by Mathieu Trudel-Lapierre
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Bug Description

Booting a multipathed systems can fail in initramfs if the wwids file is not present and multipath-tools (with find_multipaths enabled) runs its detection before udev has completely detected all disk paths.

Solution would be to either copy wwids file on the initramfs image so that it's available on boot, or to make sure udev runs and finds all paths before running the multipath detection in scripts/local-top/multipath.

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Mathieu Trudel-Lapierre (cyphermox) wrote :

partman-multipath also needs to ship the wwids file in post-installations steps so that first boot will work.

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Launchpad Janitor (janitor) wrote :

This bug was fixed in the package multipath-tools - 0.5.0-7ubuntu3

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multipath-tools (0.5.0-7ubuntu3) wily; urgency=medium

  * debian/initramfs/hooks: also copy wwids file on the installed system to
    ensure all paths come up on boot. (LP: #1479929)

 -- Mathieu Trudel-Lapierre <email address hidden> Thu, 30 Jul 2015 16:34:28 -0400

Changed in multipath-tools (Ubuntu):
status: New → Fix Released
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