cannot be installed in containers

[Michael Hudson-Doyle]

Which is bad now that the ubuntu-server metapackage depends on it.

Setting up multipath-tools (0.7.4-2ubuntu4) ...
Created symlink /etc/systemd/system/multipath-tools.service → /lib/systemd/system/multipathd.service.
Created symlink /etc/systemd/system/sysinit.target.wants/multipathd.service → /lib/systemd/system/multipathd.service.
multipathd.socket is a disabled or a static unit, not starting it.
Job for multipathd.service failed because a fatal signal was delivered causing the control process to dump core.
See "systemctl status multipathd.service" and "journalctl -xe" for details.
invoke-rc.d: initscript multipath-tools, action "start" failed.
● multipathd.service - Device-Mapper Multipath Device Controller
   Loaded: loaded (/lib/systemd/system/multipathd.service; enabled; vendor preset: enabled)
   Active: failed (Result: core-dump) since Wed 2019-04-03 23:18:54 UTC; 10ms ago
  Process: 3067 ExecStartPre=/sbin/modprobe -a scsi_dh_alua scsi_dh_emc scsi_dh_rdac dm-multipath (code=exited, status=1/FAILURE)
  Process: 3068 ExecStart=/sbin/multipathd -d -s (code=dumped, signal=ABRT)
 Main PID: 3068 (code=dumped, signal=ABRT)
   Status: "configure"

Apr 03 23:18:54 disco multipathd[3068]: read /etc/multipath.conf
Apr 03 23:18:54 disco multipathd[3068]: path checkers start up
Apr 03 23:18:54 disco multipathd[3068]: /dev/mapper/control: mknod failed: Operation not permitted
Apr 03 23:18:54 disco multipathd[3068]: Failure to communicate with kernel device-mapper driver.
Apr 03 23:18:54 disco multipathd[3068]: Check that device-mapper is available in the kernel.
Apr 03 23:18:54 disco multipathd[3068]: Incompatible libdevmapper 1.02.145 (2017-11-03) and kernel driver (unknown version).
Apr 03 23:18:54 disco multipathd[3068]: (urcu-call-rcu-impl.h:call_rcu_data_init@438) Unrecoverable error: Resource temporarily unavailable
Apr 03 23:18:54 disco systemd[1]: multipathd.service: Main process exited, code=dumped, status=6/ABRT
Apr 03 23:18:54 disco systemd[1]: multipathd.service: Failed with result 'core-dump'.
Apr 03 23:18:54 disco systemd[1]: Failed to start Device-Mapper Multipath Device Controller.
dpkg: error processing package multipath-tools (--configure):
 installed multipath-tools package post-installation script subprocess returned error exit status 1

[Launchpad Janitor (janitor)]

Status changed to 'Confirmed' because the bug affects multiple users.

[Andreas Hasenack (ahasenack)]

invoke-rc.d: initscript multipath-tools, action "start" failed.
● multipathd.service - Device-Mapper Multipath Device Controller
   Loaded: loaded (/lib/systemd/system/multipathd.service; enabled; vendor preset: enabled)
   Active: failed (Result: core-dump) since Wed 2019-04-03 23:20:30 UTC; 6ms ago
  Process: 1918 ExecStartPre=/sbin/modprobe -a scsi_dh_alua scsi_dh_emc scsi_dh_rdac dm-multipath (code=exited, status=1/FAILURE)
  Process: 1919 ExecStart=/sbin/multipathd -d -s (code=dumped, signal=ABRT)
 Main PID: 1919 (code=dumped, signal=ABRT)
   Status: "configure"

Apr 03 23:20:29 disco-meta multipathd[1919]: read /etc/multipath.conf
Apr 03 23:20:29 disco-meta multipathd[1919]: path checkers start up
Apr 03 23:20:29 disco-meta multipathd[1919]: /dev/mapper/control: mknod failed: Operation not permitted
Apr 03 23:20:29 disco-meta multipathd[1919]: Failure to communicate with kernel device-mapper driver.
Apr 03 23:20:29 disco-meta multipathd[1919]: Check that device-mapper is available in the kernel.
Apr 03 23:20:29 disco-meta multipathd[1919]: Incompatible libdevmapper 1.02.145 (2017-11-03) and kernel driver (unknown version).
Apr 03 23:20:29 disco-meta multipathd[1919]: (urcu-call-rcu-impl.h:call_rcu_data_init@438) Unrecoverable error: Resource temporarily unavailable
Apr 03 23:20:30 disco-meta systemd[1]: multipathd.service: Main process exited, code=dumped, status=6/ABRT
Apr 03 23:20:30 disco-meta systemd[1]: multipathd.service: Failed with result 'core-dump'.
Apr 03 23:20:30 disco-meta systemd[1]: Failed to start Device-Mapper Multipath Device Controller.

[Launchpad Janitor (janitor)]

This bug was fixed in the package multipath-tools - 0.7.4-2ubuntu8

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multipath-tools (0.7.4-2ubuntu8) disco; urgency=medium

  * Do not attempt to start multipath-tools in containers, should switch
    for on-demand udev/socket based activation in the future. LP: #1823093

 -- Dimitri John Ledkov <email address hidden> Mon, 15 Apr 2019 11:10:32 +0100