Bug 24681 - "DM multipath kernel driver not loaded" message when running update-grub2
Summary: "DM multipath kernel driver not loaded" message when running update-grub2
Status: RESOLVED INVALID
Alias: None
Product: Mageia
Classification: Unclassified
Component: RPM Packages (show other bugs)
Version: Cauldron
Hardware: x86_64 Linux
Priority: Normal normal
Target Milestone: ---
Assignee: All Packagers
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Reported: 2019-04-17 15:57 CEST by Kristoffer Grundström
Modified: 2020-10-13 01:08 CEST (History)
13 users (show)

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Source RPM: multipath-tools
CVE:
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Attachments
Information about my hardware (16.94 KB, text/plain)
2019-04-17 16:00 CEST, Kristoffer Grundström
Details
CLI output of grub2-mkconfig (1.06 KB, text/plain)
2019-04-19 19:13 CEST, Ulrich Beckmann
Details

Description Kristoffer Grundström 2019-04-17 15:57:49 CEST
Description of problem: I noticed that when I run update-grub2 I get "Apr 17 15:29:38 | DM multipath kernel driver not loaded" in the output.

Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable): 2.02.0-12

How reproducible: Everytime I run update-grub2

Steps to Reproduce:
1. Open a terminal.
2. Login as root.
3. Run update-grub2.
4. After it says Found initrd image: /boot/initrd-desktop.img you'll see DM multipath kernel driver not loaded.
Comment 1 Kristoffer Grundström 2019-04-17 16:00:15 CEST
Created attachment 10947 [details]
Information about my hardware

CC: (none) => hamnisdude

Comment 2 Kristoffer Grundström 2019-04-17 16:01:13 CEST
Kernel version is 5.0.7-desktop-5.mga7.
Comment 3 Ulrich Beckmann 2019-04-19 18:54:24 CEST
The same message occurs here on a multiboot-system. LVM and btrfs involved.

Do you have os-prober installed and active? It looks like a warning. The file /boot/grub2/grub.cfg is valid and works. The process slowed down considerably.

cc'ing Barry Jackson.

Ulrich

CC: (none) => bequimao.de, zen25000

Comment 4 Ulrich Beckmann 2019-04-19 19:13:28 CEST
Created attachment 10954 [details]
CLI output of grub2-mkconfig

Took approx. 15 minutes.
The message appeared with the kernel 5.0 series.
Ulrich Beckmann 2019-04-19 19:40:43 CEST

See Also: (none) => https://bugs.mageia.org/show_bug.cgi?id=15752

Comment 5 Kristoffer Grundström 2019-04-20 02:16:26 CEST
(In reply to Ulrich Beckmann from comment #3)
> Do you have os-prober installed and active?

It's installed, but I have no idea if it's active or not.
Comment 6 Marja Van Waes 2019-04-20 07:37:19 CEST
CC'ing our multipath-tools maintainer and our kernel maintainers, because I lack the needed knowledge to triage this report.

Source RPM: grub2-common => grub2? os-prober? multipath-tools? kernel?
CC: (none) => geiger.david68210, kernel, marja11
Summary: DM multipath kernel driver not loaded is seen when running update-grub2 to look to update GRUB => "DM multipath kernel driver not loaded" message when running update-grub2

Comment 7 Kristoffer Grundström 2019-05-11 14:53:37 CEST
[root@localhost ~]# service multipathd status
Redirecting to /bin/systemctl status multipathd.service
● multipathd.service - Device-Mapper Multipath Device Controller
   Loaded: loaded (/usr/lib/systemd/system/multipathd.service; disabled; vendor preset: disabled)
   Active: inactive (dead)

It's not supposed to be like that, right?
Comment 8 Marja Van Waes 2019-05-13 17:51:35 CEST
(In reply to Marja Van Waes from comment #6)
> CC'ing our multipath-tools maintainer and our kernel maintainers, because I
> lack the needed knowledge to triage this report.

(In reply to Kristoffer Grundström from comment #7)
> [root@localhost ~]# service multipathd status
> Redirecting to /bin/systemctl status multipathd.service
> ● multipathd.service - Device-Mapper Multipath Device Controller
>    Loaded: loaded (/usr/lib/systemd/system/multipathd.service; disabled;
> vendor preset: disabled)
>    Active: inactive (dead)
> 
> It's not supposed to be like that, right?


Assuming multipath is the culprit and assigning to all packagers collectively, because we no longer have a multipath-tools maintainer, and CC'ing a bunch of its committers

CC: (none) => cjw, joequant, mageia, ngompa13, thierry.vignaud, tmb
Assignee: bugsquad => pkg-bugs
Source RPM: grub2? os-prober? multipath-tools? kernel? => multipath-tools

Comment 9 Kristoffer Grundström 2020-10-13 00:37:25 CEST
Ping!
Any progress on this?
Comment 10 Dave Hodgins 2020-10-13 01:08:07 CEST
Closing as invalid.

It's simply an information message that the multipath kernel has not been loaded.

It's not being loaded because the multipath feature allowing multiple paths
through storage arrays to access a given pool of storage devices has not been
configured. See
https://www.thegeekdiary.com/understanding-linux-multipath-using-dm-multipath/

It's not something a home user is going to be using, and is not related to
multi-boot.

Status: NEW => RESOLVED
Resolution: (none) => INVALID
CC: (none) => davidwhodgins


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