[Bug 1275607] [NEW] can't upgrade multipathd on 12.04

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Public bug reported:

Upgrade script tries to stop running multipathd while volume is in use:

apt-get upgrade
Reading package lists... Done
Building dependency tree       
Reading state information... Done
The following packages have been kept back:
  squid squid3 squid3-common
The following packages will be upgraded:
  multipath-tools
1 upgraded, 0 newly installed, 0 to remove and 3 not upgraded.
15 not fully installed or removed.
Need to get 0 B/166 kB of archives.
After this operation, 0 B of additional disk space will be used.
Do you want to continue [Y/n]? 
(Reading database ... 304505 files and directories currently installed.)
Preparing to replace multipath-tools 0.4.9-3ubuntu5 (using .../multipath-tools_0.4.9-3ubuntu5.1_amd64.deb) ...
 * Stopping multipath daemon multipathd                                                                                                       Feb 03 07:38:35 | mpath1: map in use
invoke-rc.d: initscript multipath-tools, action "stop" failed.
dpkg: warning: subprocess old pre-removal script returned error exit status 1
dpkg - trying script from the new package instead ...
 * Stopping multipath daemon multipathd                                                                                                       Feb 03 07:38:35 | mpath1: map in use
invoke-rc.d: initscript multipath-tools, action "stop" failed.
dpkg: error processing /var/cache/apt/archives/multipath-tools_0.4.9-3ubuntu5.1_amd64.deb (--unpack):
 subprocess new pre-removal script returned error exit status 1
 * Starting multipath daemon multipathd                                                                                                [ OK ] 
Errors were encountered while processing:
 /var/cache/apt/archives/multipath-tools_0.4.9-3ubuntu5.1_amd64.deb
E: Sub-process /usr/bin/dpkg returned an error code (1)


Is there any wrokaround?

** Affects: multipath-tools (Ubuntu)
     Importance: Undecided
         Status: New

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  can't upgrade multipathd on 12.04

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