Multipathd fails to start on RHEL 7

Solution Verified - Updated -

Issue

  • On a RHEL 7 system multipath is not working once the system reaches multi-user.target
  • # systemctl status multipathd shows multipathd in a failed state.
  • # systemctl restart multipathd and # systemctl start multipathd will put multipathd in an active (running) state despite the initial failed state.

Environment

  • Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7
  • device-mapper-multipath-0.4.9-85.el7_2.6.x86_64.

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