Bug#567019: kpartx: multipath partition devices are missing

[Guido Günther]

On Wed, Jan 27, 2010 at 09:40:08PM +0100, Ferenc Wagner wrote:
> Guido Günther <agx at sigxcpu.org> writes:
> 
> > Could you try increasing udevs debug level (maybe capture via serial
> > console)?
> 
> Heh, booting with udev_log="debug" resulted in a 1.1M console log
> file...  Truly amazing.
> 
> > Alternatively could you first check if the scripts called from
> >
> > 	/lib/udev/rules.d/60-kpartx.rules
> >
> > turn out the expected results? Maybe ENV{DM_STATE} != ACTIVE? or
> > ENV{DM_TABLE_STATE}!="LIVE"? Running
> >
> > 	/lib/udev/dmsetup_env <major> <minor> 
> >
> > Should already give a hint.
> 
> # /lib/udev/dmsetup_env 254 0
> DM_UUID=mpath-360060160ec612000f6f237e09406df11
> DM_TABLE_STATE=LIVE
> DM_STATE=ACTIVE
> DM_NAME=nfs
> 
> The problem is not this.  It's much more basic:
> 
> (initramfs) cd /lib/udev/rules.d
> (initramfs) ls
> 50-udev-default.rules            60-persistent-storage.rules
> 55-dm.rules                      70-persistent-net.rules
> 56-lvm.rules                     80-drivers.rules
> 60-persistent-storage-dm.rules   91-permissions.rules
> 60-persistent-storage-lvm.rules
> 
> That is, 60-kpartx.rules is not present in the initramfs!
> No wonder it does not work. :)
Weird - I just bootstraped a kvm instance and 60-kpartx.rules ends up in
the initramfs fine.
 -- Guido