I have a Dell 2950 running 64-bit RHEL5.1 and am having a problem with
multipathd crashing with a segfault.  It seems to happen only when
selinux is enabled.  I quick search turned up a nearly identical bug
reported on CentOS:

http://bugs.centos.org/view.php?id=2746

This causes a problem in that, if a path fails, it's never restored
(since that's the job of multipathd).  We had a drive failure last night
that would have normally cause an 60-90 second outage (while the drive
was retried and eventually marked offline by the array) but, since
mutlipathd had failed it causes a much longer outage.

When I was alerted to the problem I was able to put selinux into
permissive mode and get multipathd running again, which restored the
paths and things seemed OK after that, but obviously this isn't the way
it should work.

I pretty sure this problem is "new".  This system has been running with
it's current configuration for a few months and we've never seen this
before.  Has anyone else noticed problems with multipathd not running on
RHEL5.1 systems with selinux enabled?

Thanks,
Tom


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