Bug#799781: device lock race condition between udev and multipathd may cause systemd to abort system boot

[Ritesh Raj Sarraf]

Thank you Niels, for confirming this. I'll now work on the stable
update. I'll ping you (soon) one more time, to verify the stable
update, before I push it to the Debian Security Team.


Ritesh


On Wed, 2015-09-23 at 12:23 +0000, Baumgartner Niels, Bedag wrote:
> Hello Ritesh
> 
> > Just FYI. This same issue is fixed with the version currently
> > residing in experimental. I mean, the fix was inherited with the
> > rebase to the git repo. :-)
> > Incase if you have time to just verify the same with the
> > experimental version, please do so.
> 
> Certain packages had to be installed from testing/stretch to
> successfully resolve all dependencies.
> I can confirm that the following combination of packages work on a
> jessie based installation.
> 
> From testing/stretch: 
> ii  dmsetup                           2:1.02.104-1               
>  amd64        Linux Kernel Device Mapper userspace library
> ii  libdevmapper1.02.1:amd64          2:1.02.104-1               
>  amd64        Linux Kernel Device Mapper userspace library
> ii  liblvm2app2.2:amd64               2.02.127-1                 
>  amd64        LVM2 application library
> ii  liblvm2cmd2.02:amd64              2.02.111-2.2               
>  amd64        LVM2 command library
> ii  libsgutils2-2                     1.41-1                     
>  amd64        utilities for devices using the SCSI command set
> (shared libraries)
> ii  sg3-utils                         1.41-1                     
>  amd64        utilities for devices using the SCSI command set
> ii  sg3-utils-udev                    1.41-1                      all
>           utilities for devices using the SCSI command set (udev
> rules)
> ii  lvm2                              2.02.127-1                 
>  amd64        Linux Logical Volume Manager
> 
> From experimental:
> ii  kpartx                            0.5.0+git0.770e6d0d-2      
>  amd64        create device mappings for partitions
> ii  multipath-tools                   0.5.0+git0.770e6d0d-2      
>  amd64        maintain multipath block device access
> ii  multipath-tools-boot              0.5.0+git0.770e6d0d-2       all
>           Support booting from multipath devices
> 
> 
> Thanks a lot!
> - Niels
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Ritesh Raj Sarraf | http://people.debian.org/~rrs
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