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

[Guido Günther]

On Sat, Apr 10, 2010 at 10:56:30AM +0200, Niccolo Rigacci wrote:
[..snip..] 
> 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.
This looks like a bug then. Can you add a:

# X-Start-Before:    checkfs mountall
# X-Stop-After:      umountfs

to the init scripts lsb headers and let insserv reorder the links? Most
people have this stuff on LVM which already handles this.

> I don't have the multipath-tools-boot package installed, should I?
> The /home partition is the only one on multipath.
That's only needed if your rootfs is on multipath.
Cheers,
 -- Guido