multipath udev rules problem

Status changed to 'Confirmed' because the bug affects multiple users.

Hi, I have the same pb. on ubuntu 13.10 and it's pollution my dmesg :

$ grep -c "systemd-udevd.*failed to execute '/lib/udev/socket:/org/kernel/dm/multipath_event" /var/log/dmesg
181

Got any suggestions ?

Seb..

We have the same problem with 14.04

I hope the bug will be fixed until the release.

the last Version from 2013-12-17 on http://christophe.varoqui.free.fr/ is multipath-tools-0.5.0

Changes :
* scsi3 persistent reservations on multipaths
* systemd integration
     ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
* better udev integration (get device events and ids from udev)
* kpartx support for non-512b blocksize disks
* multipathd maintenance of important kernel tunable like oom_score_adj, dev_loss_tmo and fast_io_fail
* followover failback mode
* handle offline paths and quiesced rports
* more synthetic and informative logs
* better threading and performance
* tons of bugfixes and stability improvements

udev doesn't support RUN+="socket://..." in udev rules after 178 version.

multipath-tools using libudev instead of file access.

http://upstream-tracker.org/changelogs/libudev/178/changelog.html

remove the RUN+="socket://..." line
in /lib/udev/rules.d/95-multipath.rules

then warning message will be gone.

debdiff above also fix problem on Utopic

For utopic, I'd prefer to see a merge from debian, that includes this fix. However, for the sake of simplicity to SRU this change I'm going to sponsor this.

This bug was fixed in the package multipath-tools - 0.4.9-3ubuntu8

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multipath-tools (0.4.9-3ubuntu8) utopic; urgency=medium

  * Remove RUN+="socket:" statement in rules file since it is
    no longer supported after version 178 (LP: #1240049)
 -- Seyeong Kim <email address hidden> Fri, 18 Jul 2014 10:37:35 +0200

the patch removes the warning but still, something isn't right -- multipathd does not show the devices that shoul've been created by the udev rule. we're gathering more information and will update soon.

multipathd does not act upon udev changes -- its very easy to see when running udev monitor and multipathd -v9 -d and then attaching new disks.

by the looks of it, support for monitoring events by libudev was only added in 2013, far later than 0.4.9
everything seems to exist in 0.5, and none of it was merged to Ubuntu, yet.

Seems this fix isn't enough then - I'm going to mark this bug as Incomplete. If somebody does merge the 0.5 release from Debian then please reset to Confirmed.

unsubscribing sponsors, seems like more work needs to be done there before it's ready for upload

Hitting the same issue. Any ETA on the availability for the fix .
Im running Ubuntu14.04.02 and Ubuntu 14.04 with multipath Version: 0.4.9-3ubuntu7.2.

As clearly mentioned in comment #13, multipathd is not working with the updated udev. We have identified this issue during testing at Netapp as well. None of the "add/remove/change" uevents are passed to multipathd and path mappings would be inconsistent when devices go away and rediscovered. Please updated the multipath-tools version to 0.5.0 so that it uses the libudev interface udev_monitor_new_from_netlink() instead of listening on udev socket.

This bug is not "Incomplete", as we don't need more information from users. This bug was fixed, and is a Medium status because the problem reported was the erroneous warnings. We don't fix Medium bugs in SRU. So I've marked the Trusty portion as Won't Fix.

The lack of 0.5 and its udev listening features in trusty is also likely not going to be fixable as an SRU, unless an exception is made to allow this new feature. 0.5 should be merged into vivid+1 and backports used to bring the new udev functionality to trusty users. However, multipath being a non-leaf package, that may also be difficult as extensive testing would be necessary.

I can confirm that multipath 0.5.0-7ubuntu3 resolved the issue. We had to built it for trusty 14.04.3 from willy.

@Jakub can you please share how you backported the proper multipath?

@Jakub HP has hit a similar issue and we have an open Launchpad bug here:

https://bugs.launchpad.net/hp/+bug/1487640

We are interested in getting the multipath 0.5.0 package for Ubuntu 14.04.2 with the fix.

Please provide where we can get the package.

There's already this fix in trusty-proposed, though not quite using multipath 0.5.0 (which is a very large changeset that would be quite difficult to review and conclusively say there are no regressions).

FWIW; I'm referring to https://launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/multipath-tools/0.4.9-3ubuntu7.5 , which is meant to fix these bugs:
https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/multipath-tools/+bug/1386637
https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/multipath-tools/+bug/1468897