Re: multipathd dies at startup

["Finnur Örn Guðmundsson" <finnzi@finnzi.com>]

Geoff Galitz wrote:
>
> I am trying to get dm-multipath configured to support my iSCSI setup, but I
> have a problem with multipathd dieing silently at startup.
>
> kernel 2.6.18-53.1.21.el5
> package: device-mapper-multipath-0.4.7-12.el5_1.4
> distro: Centos 5.1
>
> Multpath config:
>
>
>
> -----------------------------------
> # Blacklist all devices by default. Remove this to enable multipathing
> # on the default devices.
> blacklist {
> devnode "*"
> }
>
> blacklist_exceptions {
> device {
> vendor "IET" 
> product "VIRTUAL-DISK"
> }
> }
>
> multipaths {
> multipath {
> wwid 14945540000000000000000000100000037800f000000d00f
> alias yellow
> path_grouping_policy multibus
> path_checker readsector0
> path_selector "round-robin 0"
> failback immediate
> rr_weight priorities
> no_path_retry 5
> }
> }
>
> device {
> vendor "IET"
> product "VIRTUAL-DISK"
> path_grouping_policy failover
> features "1 queue_if_no_path"
> failback immediate
> }
> }
>
>
>
>
> Geoff Galitz
> Blankenheim NRW, Deutschland
> http://www.galitz.org
>
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Hi,
Having recently hit the same issue, it was a SELinux problem in my case.
Try: setenforce 0 ; service multipathd restart

See if it works for you. I also remember seeing a fix from RHEL/CentOS 
regarding this.

Thanks,
Finnur