Bug#445825: multipath-tools-boot should run after libdevmapper1.02

Peter Eisentraut peter_e at gmx.net
Tue Oct 9 11:02:33 UTC 2007


Am Dienstag, 9. Oktober 2007 schrieb Guido Guenther:
> That said /etc/init.d/libdevmapper* doesn't create any directories by
> itself it merely loads dm-mod and other device mapper modules. Since
> dm-mod is also loaded by dm-multipath which in turn gets loaded by
> /etc/init.d/multipath-tools-boot this shouldn't have any relevance. I'm
> quiet sure the bug is somewhere else - you should be able to disable the
> /etci/init.d/libdevmapper* scripts completely.

I have to revise my analysis of the problem.  It is indeed independent of 
libdevmapper.  The problem is that multipath-tools-boot starts before udev, 
so whatever devices it may have created will be shadowed by udev.  I could 
fix it by moving multipath-tools-boot to S04.





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