System is unable to boot and shows error - '/etc/opt/emcpower/pp_reset_dm_deps.sh: line 50: [: too many arguments'

Solution Verified - Updated -

Issue

  • The system was rebooted for maintenance activity but after powering on the system, boot process was stuck with following errors on console:

    /etc/opt/emcpower/pp_reset_dm_deps.sh: line 50: [: too many arguments
/etc/opt/emcpower/pp_reset_dm_deps.sh: line 50: [: too many arguments
/etc/opt/emcpower/pp_reset_dm_deps.sh: line 50: [: too many arguments
/etc/opt/emcpower/pp_reset_dm_deps.sh: line 50: [: too many arguments
/etc/opt/emcpower/pp_reset_dm_deps.sh: line 50: [: too many arguments
/etc/opt/emcpower/pp_reset_dm_deps.sh: line 50: [: too many arguments
[...]

  • Once the EMC PowerPath modules were disabled, system was able to boot without any issues.

Environment

  • Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5.10
  • EMC PowerPath

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