Excessive multipath syslog messages "/lib/udev/scsi_id exitted with 1" with device-mapper-multipath on RHEL 6.1
Issue
- Running multipath -ll on a system with a failed/faulty path results in excessive error messages :
Aug 01 04:50:54 | /lib/udev/scsi_id exitted with 1
Aug 01 04:50:54 | /lib/udev/scsi_id exitted with 1
Aug 01 04:50:54 | /lib/udev/scsi_id exitted with 1
Aug 01 04:50:54 | /lib/udev/scsi_id exitted with 1
Aug 01 04:50:54 | /lib/udev/scsi_id exitted with 1
Aug 01 04:50:54 | /lib/udev/scsi_id exitted with 1
Aug 01 04:50:54 | /lib/udev/scsi_id exitted with 1
Aug 01 04:50:54 | /lib/udev/scsi_id exitted with 1
Aug 01 04:50:54 | /lib/udev/scsi_id exitted with 1
Aug 01 04:50:54 | /lib/udev/scsi_id exitted with 1
Aug 01 04:50:54 | /lib/udev/scsi_id exitted with 1
Aug 01 04:50:54 | /lib/udev/scsi_id exitted with 1
Aug 01 04:50:54 | /lib/udev/scsi_id exitted with 1
Aug 01 04:50:54 | /lib/udev/scsi_id exitted with 1
Aug 01 04:50:54 | /lib/udev/scsi_id exitted with 1
Aug 01 04:50:54 | /lib/udev/scsi_id exitted with 1
Aug 01 04:50:54 | /lib/udev/scsi_id exitted with 1
Aug 01 04:50:54 | /lib/udev/scsi_id exitted with 1
Aug 01 04:50:54 | /lib/udev/scsi_id exitted with 1
Aug 01 04:50:54 | /lib/udev/scsi_id exitted with 1
Aug 01 04:50:54 | sdae: emc prio: query command indicates error
Aug 01 04:50:54 | sdao: emc prio: query command indicates error
mpathj (3600601605f50220001593fc80677e011) dm-4 DGC,RAID 5
size=36G features='1 queue_if_no_path' hwhandler='1 emc' wp=rw
|-+- policy='round-robin 0' prio=1 status=active
| |- 2:0:0:8 sdae 65:224 failed faulty running
| `- 1:0:1:8 sdu 65:64 active ready running
`-+- policy='round-robin 0' prio=0 status=enabled
|- 1:0:0:8 sdk 8:160 active ready running
`- 2:0:1:8 sdao 66:128 failed faulty running
Environment
- Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6.1
- device-mapper-multipath-0.4.9-*.el6
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