multipathd: spurious uevent, path not found or multipathd: devname failed to get udev uid: Invalid argument

Solution Verified - Updated -

Issue

In /var/log/messages we are getting below errors continuously :

Sep  9 12:47:27 hostname multipathd: sda: spurious uevent, path not found
Sep  9 12:47:27 hostname multipathd: uevent trigger error
Sep  9 12:47:27 hostname multipathd: sda: spurious uevent, path not found
Sep  9 12:47:27 hostname multipathd: uevent trigger error
Sep  9 12:47:27 hostname multipathd: sda: spurious uevent, path not found
Sep  9 12:47:27 hostname multipathd: uevent trigger error
Sep  9 12:47:27 hostname multipathd: sda: spurious uevent, path not found
Sep  9 12:47:27 hostname multipathd: uevent trigger error
Sep  9 13:05:34 hostname multipathd: sda: spurious uevent, path not found
Sep  9 13:05:34 hostname multipathd: uevent trigger error
Sep  9 13:05:34 hostname multipathd: sda: spurious uevent, path not found
Sep  9 13:05:34 hostnamemultipathd: uevent trigger error
Sep  9 13:05:34 hostname multipathd: sda: spurious uevent, path not found
Sep  9 13:05:34 hostname multipathd: uevent trigger error
Sep  9 13:05:34 hostname multipathd: sda: spurious uevent, path not found
Sep  9 13:05:34 hostname multipathd: uevent trigger error

OR

Jun 05 14:57:54 hostname multipathd[1265]: sdb: failed to get udev uid: No data available
Jun 05 14:57:54 hostname multipathd[1265]: sdb: spurious uevent, path not found
Jun 05 14:57:54 hostname multipathd[1265]: sdd: failed to get udev uid: No data available
Jun 05 14:57:54 hostname multipathd[1265]: sdd: spurious uevent, path not found

Environment

  • Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7,8,9
  • Device Mapper Multipath
  • VMware VM

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