No output from multipath -ll on RHEL5.9

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Issue

  • When restarting the multipathd, the following errors are in the /var/log/messages file:
multipathd: /lib/udev/scsi_id exitted with 1
multipathd: cannot get the the wwid for sdb
multipathd: /lib/udev/scsi_id exitted with 1
multipathd: cannot get the the wwid for sdb
  • The directory /dev/mapper and the output of "multipath -ll" are empty.

Environment

  • Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5.9
  • device-mapper-multipath-0.4.7-54.el5.x86_64

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