multipathd does not start upon reboot .

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Issue

  • Upon reboot multipathd does not start. if I start it manually it is starting "service multipathd start" .

Upon reboot status show as

# service multipathd status
multipathd dead but pid file exists

Pls help trouble shooting this issue .

Environment

  • Red Hat Enterprise Linux (RHEL) 6.2
  • Device mapper multipath

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