Thanks for the reply. Just for the record it is now fixed. Here is what happened: Tested on Centos 5.1 i368: multipathd died reliably Tested on Centos 5.1 x86_64: works like a charm And then it turns out that Centos 5.2 came down the line just last night for me, so I updated and now multipathd works for me in both i386 and x86_64. Again, thanks for the help. -geoff Geoff Galitz Blankenheim NRW, Deutschland http://www.galitz.org -----Original Message----- From: dm-devel-bounces@xxxxxxxxxx [mailto:dm-devel-bounces@xxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf Of Finnur Örn Guðmundsson Sent: Mittwoch, 25. Juni 2008 01:50 To: device-mapper development Subject: Re: multipathd dies at startup Geoff Galitz wrote: > > I am trying to get dm-multipath configured to support my iSCSI setup, but I > have a problem with multipathd dieing silently at startup. > > kernel 2.6.18-53.1.21.el5 > package: device-mapper-multipath-0.4.7-12.el5_1.4 > distro: Centos 5.1 > > Multpath config: > > > > ----------------------------------- > # Blacklist all devices by default. Remove this to enable multipathing > # on the default devices. > blacklist { > devnode "*" > } > > blacklist_exceptions { > device { > vendor "IET" > product "VIRTUAL-DISK" > } > } > > multipaths { > multipath { > wwid 14945540000000000000000000100000037800f000000d00f > alias yellow > path_grouping_policy multibus > path_checker readsector0 > path_selector "round-robin 0" > failback immediate > rr_weight priorities > no_path_retry 5 > } > } > > device { > vendor "IET" > product "VIRTUAL-DISK" > path_grouping_policy failover > features "1 queue_if_no_path" > failback immediate > } > } > > > > > Geoff Galitz > Blankenheim NRW, Deutschland > http://www.galitz.org > > > -- > dm-devel mailing list > dm-devel@xxxxxxxxxx > https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/dm-devel > Hi, Having recently hit the same issue, it was a SELinux problem in my case. Try: setenforce 0 ; service multipathd restart See if it works for you. I also remember seeing a fix from RHEL/CentOS regarding this. Thanks, Finnur -- dm-devel mailing list dm-devel@xxxxxxxxxx https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/dm-devel -- dm-devel mailing list dm-devel@xxxxxxxxxx https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/dm-devel