Bug#577172: multipath device not mounted at boot (multipath-tools-boot started too late)

[Niccolo Rigacci]

Package: multipath-tools
Version: 0.4.8-15.1
Severity: important

My Squeeze system booted fine last time (85 days ago). Today,
after a system upgrade, it was unable to mount at boot time the
/home partition from a multipath fiber channel (QLogic ISP2532).

At /etc/rcS.d/S10mountall.sh time, the multipath was not started.
I have "auto" as fsystem type in /etc/fstab, so the boot process
continues. At boot end the multipath is started, but the
partition is not mounted.

I found a /etc/rcS.d/S14multipath-tools-boot, don't know if the
boot order was re-arranged by insserv. I moved the script to
/etc/rcS.d/S08multipath-tools-boot and now the system boots nicely.

I don't have the multipath-tools-boot package installed, should I?
The /home partition is the only one on multipath.

The upgrade involved - among many others - the following packages:

sysvinit           2.87dsf-8    2.87dsf-10
sysvinit-utils     2.87dsf-8    2.87dsf-10
sysv-rc            2.87dsf-8    2.87dsf-10
initscripts        2.87dsf-8    2.87dsf-10
dmsetup            2:1.02.39-1  2:1.02.45-1
module-init-tools  3.11-1       3.12~pre2-1
udev               150-2        151-3

-- Package-specific info:
/etc/multipath.conf does not exist.


-- System Information:
Debian Release: squeeze/sid
  APT prefers testing
  APT policy: (500, 'testing')
Architecture: i386 (i686)

Kernel: Linux 2.6.30-2-686 (SMP w/8 CPU cores)
Locale: LANG=en_US.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=en_US.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8)
Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/bash

Versions of packages multipath-tools depends on:
ii  initscripts               2.87dsf-10     scripts for initializing and shutt
ii  kpartx                    0.4.8-15.1     create device mappings for partiti
ii  libaio1                   0.3.107-7      Linux kernel AIO access library - 
ii  libc6                     2.10.2-6       Embedded GNU C Library: Shared lib
ii  libdevmapper1.02.1        2:1.02.45-1    The Linux Kernel Device Mapper use
ii  libncurses5               5.7+20100313-2 shared libraries for terminal hand
ii  libreadline5              5.2-7          GNU readline and history libraries
ii  lsb-base                  3.2-23         Linux Standard Base 3.2 init scrip
ii  udev                      151-3          /dev/ and hotplug management daemo

multipath-tools recommends no packages.

Versions of packages multipath-tools suggests:
pn  multipath-tools-boot          <none>     (no description available)

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