[Bug 1547206] Re: Boot stalls on mountall "disk drive not ready" question in multipath-tools >= 0.4.9-3ubuntu7.5

[Robie Basak]

15:54 <rbasak> cyphermox: bug 1547206 claims a regression in a multipath-tools SRU I think. Please could 
               you take a look?

15:55 <cyphermox> rbasak: yeah, I've already been in contact with tore
on that


** Tags added: regression-update

** Changed in: multipath-tools (Ubuntu)
       Status: Confirmed => Triaged

** Changed in: multipath-tools (Ubuntu)
   Importance: Undecided => High

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Title:
  Boot stalls on mountall "disk drive not ready" question in multipath-
  tools >= 0.4.9-3ubuntu7.5

Status in multipath-tools package in Ubuntu:
  Triaged

Bug description:
  System information: Cisco UCS B200M2 blade, fnic.ko HBA. The system
  boots from local storage, but mounts the following file system on an
  EMC VNX during bootup:

  opt_vnx (3600601603a71320022967e0a1f38e411) dm-0 DGC,VRAID
  size=50G features='1 queue_if_no_path' hwhandler='1 emc' wp=rw
  |-+- policy='round-robin 0' prio=1 status=active
  | |- 1:0:1:0 sdd 8:48 active ready running
  | `- 0:0:0:0 sda 8:0  active ready running
  `-+- policy='round-robin 0' prio=0 status=enabled
    |- 0:0:1:0 sdb 8:16 active ready running
    `- 1:0:0:0 sdc 8:32 active ready running

  /etc/fstab contains:

  /dev/mapper/opt_vnx /opt/vnx ext4 noatime 0 2

  After upgrading the "multipath-tools" package to version
  0.4.9-3ubuntu7.5 or higher, the system can no longer boot without
  manual intervention. Instead, the following question is asked (by
  mountall(8)) on the console:

  The disk drive for /opt/vnx is not ready yet or not present.
  keys:Continue to wait, or Press S to skip mounting or M for manual recovery

  Waiting does nothing useful. Pressing "S" allows the boot to run to
  completion, and the "opt_vnx" *is* present when logging in to a
  completely booted system. However, it seems that this is discovered
  *after* the mountall(8) question appears and is skipped, as this log
  line appears later on in the boot process:

   * Discovering and coalescing multipaths...
  [ OK ]

  Downgrading multipath-tools to version 0.4.9-3ubuntu7.4 does resolve
  the problem, and allows the system to boot normally without manual
  intervention. Note that the dependent "kpartx" package does *not* need
  to be downgraded also, if this is left on version 0.4.9-3ubuntu7.9 it
  will still boot fine.

  We experience this problem on serveral other systems apart from the
  one described in this bug report.

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