Bug 626648

Summary:	multipathd doesn't start as daemon, running in foreground works
Product:	[openSUSE] openSUSE 11.3	Reporter:	Lutz Zellober <lutz.zellober>
Component:	Basesystem	Assignee:	Jain Ankit <jankit>
Status:	RESOLVED WONTFIX	QA Contact:	E-mail List <qa-bugs>
Severity:	Major
Priority:	P5 - None	CC:	kuehne.stefan
Version:	Final
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Hardware:	x86-64
OS:	openSUSE 11.3
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Description Lutz Zellober 2010-07-29 13:36:07 UTC

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The Multipathd daemon doesn't start, when started by the init script. No messages in the log, even when Arg "-v3" is given. Manual start as daemen also fails.

Starting with the Arg "-d" (foreground mode) works. 

strace shows "normal end" of parend and child.

Tests without and with a configuration file (/etc/multipath,conf) showed same results.


Please help.

Reproducible: Always

Steps to Reproduce:
1.fresh installation
2.configer iscsi initiator and connect to target
3.start multipathd
Actual Results:  
multipathd doesn't daemonize

Expected Results:  
runing as daemon

Comment 1 Lutz Zellober 2010-08-02 09:26:09 UTC

Hi,
downloading the multipath-tools-debugsource from the repo i noticed a difference in the version.
The installed multipathd -k prints out "multipath-tools v0.4.9 (04/04, 2009), the provided debug source is version 0.4.8.51.3.
Is this a mistake?

Comment 2 Stefan Kuehne 2010-09-22 08:31:19 UTC

Hi,

i have the same behaviour here.

Dirty workaround (based on the foreground mode):

/etc/init.d/multipathd:

Line 26:
ARGS="-d"

Line 55:
$DAEMON $ARGS &

Comment 4 Jain Ankit 2013-08-29 06:46:54 UTC

Product not supported anymore.