Your message dated Tue, 3 Mar 2026 12:14:14 +0100 with message-id <[email protected]> and subject line Re: Bug#915088: multipath-tools: installing multipath-tools will force dracut to be removed while it shouldn't. has caused the Debian Bug report #915088, regarding multipath-tools: installing multipath-tools will force dracut to be removed while it shouldn't. to be marked as done.
This means that you claim that the problem has been dealt with. If this is not the case it is now your responsibility to reopen the Bug report if necessary, and/or fix the problem forthwith. (NB: If you are a system administrator and have no idea what this message is talking about, this may indicate a serious mail system misconfiguration somewhere. Please contact [email protected] immediately.) -- 915088: https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=915088 Debian Bug Tracking System Contact [email protected] with problems
--- Begin Message ---Package: multipath-tools Severity: important Dear Maintainer, *** Reporter, please consider answering these questions, where appropriate *** * What led up to the situation? I'm SystemImager developper, a software that is based on dracut. SystemImager is an imaging software mainly targetted at cluster deployment. As such it makes use of multipathd if required. dracut is shipped with a multipathd module, unfortunately, multipath-tools has dependancies that will conflict with dracut while it is unnecessary. * What exactly did you do (or not do) that was effective (or ineffective)? Installed multipath-tools using: apt-get install --no-install-suggests multipath-tools * What was the outcome of this action? dracut was replaced with initramfs-tools because sg3-utils-udev is required by multipath-tools and sg3-utils-udev conflicts with dracut * What outcome did you expect instead? It should be possible to install multipath-tools and use it with dracut. In other words, it should be possible to do: apt-get install multipath-tools dracut *** End of the template - remove these template lines *** -- System Information: Debian Release: 9.6 APT prefers stable-updates APT policy: (500, 'stable-updates'), (500, 'stable') Architecture: amd64 (x86_64) Kernel: Linux 4.9.125-linuxkit (SMP w/4 CPU cores) Locale: LANG=C, LC_CTYPE=C (charmap=ANSI_X3.4-1968), LANGUAGE=C (charmap=ANSI_X3.4-1968) Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/dash Init: unable to detect Versions of packages multipath-tools depends on: ii init-system-helpers 1.48 ii kpartx 0.6.4-5+deb9u1 pn libaio1 <none> ii libc6 2.24-11+deb9u3 ii libdevmapper1.02.1 2:1.02.137-2 pn librados2 <none> ii libreadline7 7.0-3 ii libsystemd0 232-25+deb9u6 ii libudev1 232-25+deb9u6 pn liburcu4 <none> ii lsb-base 9.20161125 pn sg3-utils-udev <none> ii udev 232-25+deb9u6 multipath-tools recommends no packages. Versions of packages multipath-tools suggests: pn multipath-tools-boot <none>
--- End Message ---
--- Begin Message ---On Fri, Nov 30, 2018 at 09:10:27AM +0000, Olivier Lahaye wrote: > * What exactly did you do (or not do) that was effective (or > ineffective)? > Installed multipath-tools using: > apt-get install --no-install-suggests multipath-tools > > * What was the outcome of this action? > dracut was replaced with initramfs-tools because sg3-utils-udev is > required by multipath-tools and sg3-utils-udev conflicts with > dracut sg3-utils-udev has Depends: initramfs-tools | linux-initramfs-tool, which is satisfied by dracut. Thus installing multipath-tools does not remove dracut. % dpkg -l dracut multipath-tools ┌── Desired=Unknown/Install/Remove/Purge/Hold │┌─ Status=Not/Inst/Conf-files/Unpacked/halF-conf/Half-inst/trig-aWait/Trig-pend ││┌ Err?=(none)/Reinst-required (Status,Err: uppercase=bad) │││ Name Version Architecture Description ├┼┼─═══════════════─════════════─════════════─═════════════════════════════════ ii dracut 110-3 all Initramfs generator using udev un multipath-tools <none> <none> (no description available) % sudo apt install -s multipath-tools Upgrading: kpartx libmpathcmd0 Installing: multipath-tools Installing dependencies: libmpathpersist0 libmultipath0 sg3-utils-udev Suggested packages: multipath-tools-boot Summary: Upgrading: 2, Installing: 4, Removing: 0, Not Upgrading: 946 Inst kpartx [0.13.0-1] (0.14.3-2 Debian:unstable [arm64]) Inst libmpathcmd0 [0.13.0-1] (0.14.3-2 Debian:unstable [arm64]) Inst libmultipath0 (0.14.3-2 Debian:unstable [arm64]) Inst libmpathpersist0 (0.14.3-2 Debian:unstable [arm64]) Inst sg3-utils-udev (1.48-3 Debian:testing, Debian:unstable [all]) Inst multipath-tools (0.14.3-2 Debian:unstable [arm64]) Conf kpartx (0.14.3-2 Debian:unstable [arm64]) Conf libmpathcmd0 (0.14.3-2 Debian:unstable [arm64]) Conf libmultipath0 (0.14.3-2 Debian:unstable [arm64]) Conf libmpathpersist0 (0.14.3-2 Debian:unstable [arm64]) Conf sg3-utils-udev (1.48-3 Debian:testing, Debian:unstable [all]) Conf multipath-tools (0.14.3-2 Debian:unstable [arm64]) I'm closing this bug for multipath-tools. If you need additional fixes in sg3-utils, please open a bug against sg3-utils. Chris
--- End Message ---
