Kernel panic while upgrading "Device-Mapper-Multipath" package in RHEL 6?

Solution Verified - Updated -

Issue

  • When performing a system upgrade using "yum update", server gets panic after upgrading device-mapper-multipath package.
  • Snippet from yum update:
  Cleanup    : 1:net-snmp-5.5-49.el6_5.4.x86_64                         238/463 
  Cleanup    : cyrus-sasl-2.1.23-13.el6_3.1.x86_64                      239/463 
  Cleanup    : pam_pkcs11-0.6.2-12.1.el6.x86_64                         240/463 
  Cleanup    : device-mapper-multipath-0.4.9-72.el6_5.4.x86_64          241/463
  • Console showing following messages:
    panic.jpg

Environment

  • Red Hat Enterprise Linux(RHEL) 6.6

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