What does DM message failed [set_pg_timeout 0] mean

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Issue

  • After patching a RHEL 6.5 server, following messages appeared at the beginning of /var/log/boot.log:
Aug 08 06:34:39 | DM message failed [set_pg_timeout 0]
Aug 08 06:34:39 | DM message failed [set_pg_timeout 0]
Aug 08 06:34:39 | DM message failed [set_pg_timeout 0]
Aug 08 06:34:39 | DM message failed [set_pg_timeout 0]
Aug 08 06:34:39 | DM message failed [set_pg_timeout 0]
Aug 08 06:34:39 | DM message failed [set_pg_timeout 0]
Aug 08 06:34:40 | DM message failed [set_pg_timeout 0]
  • What does this mean exactly?

Environment

  • Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6 (RHEL)
  • device-mapper-multipath before device-mapper-multipath-0.4.9-87.el6

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