Why do I see "multipathd[2342]: segfault at" errors in /var/log/messages when stopping multipathd or shutting down RHEL5?

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Issue

Stopping multipathd generates segfault errors in the log file, but this does not create any working issues. The log files shows entries similar to:

multipathd[18083]: segfault at 000000000000000a rip 0000003e8106feb9 rsp 00007fff17715620 error 4

Environment

  • Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5

  • device-mapper-multipath-0.4.7-23.el5_3.1 and earlier

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