What do the messages 'multipathd: sdX: spurious uevent, path already in pathvec' mean?

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Issue

  • Following messages can be seen in the logs
Jun  6 18:53:41 hostname multipathd: sdX: add path (uevent)
Jun  6 18:53:41 hostname multipathd: sdX: spurious uevent, path already in pathvec
Jun  6 18:53:41 hostname multipathd: mpathY: failed in domap for addition of new path sdX
...
Jun  6 18:53:41 hostname multipathd: mpathY: failed in domap for addition of new path sdX
Jun  6 18:53:41 hostname multipathd: mpathY: uev_add_path sleep
Jun  6 18:53:41 hostname kernel: device-mapper: table: 253:0: multipath: error getting device
Jun  6 18:53:42 hostname kernel: device-mapper: table: 253:0: multipath: error getting device
Jun  6 18:53:42 hostname multipathd: mpathY: failed in domap for addition of new path sdX
Jun  6 18:53:42 hostname multipathd: mpathY: uev_add_path sleep

Environment

  • Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7 with device-mapper-multipath

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