Hello bugproxy, or anyone else affected,

Accepted hw-detect into xenial-proposed. The package will build now and
be available at https://launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/hw-
detect/1.117ubuntu2.2 in a few hours, and then in the -proposed
repository.

Please help us by testing this new package.  See
https://wiki.ubuntu.com/Testing/EnableProposed for documentation on how
to enable and use -proposed.Your feedback will aid us getting this
update out to other Ubuntu users.

If this package fixes the bug for you, please add a comment to this bug,
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fix the bug for you, please add a comment stating that, and change the
tag to verification-failed-xenial. In either case, details of your
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Further information regarding the verification process can be found at
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advance!

** Changed in: hw-detect (Ubuntu Xenial)
       Status: In Progress => Fix Committed

** Changed in: hw-detect (Ubuntu Yakkety)
       Status: In Progress => Fix Committed

** Tags removed: verification-done-yakkety
** Tags added: verification-needed-yakkety

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https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1673350

Title:
  dm-queue-length module is not included in installer/initramfs

Status in hw-detect package in Ubuntu:
  Fix Released
Status in initramfs-tools package in Ubuntu:
  Invalid
Status in linux package in Ubuntu:
  Fix Released
Status in multipath-tools package in Ubuntu:
  Fix Released
Status in hw-detect source package in Xenial:
  Fix Committed
Status in initramfs-tools source package in Xenial:
  Invalid
Status in linux source package in Xenial:
  Fix Released
Status in multipath-tools source package in Xenial:
  Fix Committed
Status in hw-detect source package in Yakkety:
  Fix Committed
Status in initramfs-tools source package in Yakkety:
  Invalid
Status in linux source package in Yakkety:
  Fix Released
Status in multipath-tools source package in Yakkety:
  Fix Released

Bug description:
  [Impact]
  Multipath users using EMC XtremIO storage as boot device or at install time 
may run into this issue. With the module unavailable the device is more often 
than not unavailable. Any users changing path selector to 'queue-length' with 
other storage devices may also be affected.

  [Test case]
  1) Install on multipath system using EMC XtremIO storage / OR:
   a) Start d-i install on qemu with multipath enabled
   b) exit to d-i menu
   c) modify /etc/multipath.conf to define path selector as 'queue-length' for 
the local qemu device.
   d) restart multipathd if necessary.
  2) Try to complete the install, setting up storage as multipath and using the 
multipath device as boot disk.
  3) Reboot to disk.

  In a success case, the install should complete successfully without
  requiring manual configuration from the user to support the multipath
  storage past the normal detection of multipath and partitioning.

  In a failure case, the install may not complete, or rebooting may fail
  or lead to a system booted on a single path of the multipath device
  (ie. / on /dev/sda2 rather than /dev/mpatha2).

  [Regression Potential]
  The inclusion of a new multipath path selector driver should not cause any 
regressions, but any failure to detect, configure or boot on multipath devices 
following this change on XtremIO hardware or otherwise would constitute a 
regression potentially caused by this change.

  ---

  ---Problem Description---
  dm-queue-length module is not included in installer/initramfs

  On Ubuntu, multipath devices using the 'queue-length' path selector
  are non-functional on both the installer and initramfs environments;
  because the 'dm-queue-length' kernel module is not included in them.

  The multipath-modules.udeb (src:linux) does not include it in the installer,
  nor multipath-tools-boot (src:multipath-tools) installs it in the initramfs.

  One example is the EMC XtremIO storage, which has 'queue-length' defined as
  its path selector in the default multipath configuration, at least on 16.04.

  Other products may be affected if they are manually configured to use that
  path selector (e.g., via /etc/multipath.conf), and the mere switch of that
  might render the system _unbootable_ if booting from multipath, since the
  initramfs is affected.

  More recently this and another storage changed default path selectors out
  of 'queue-length', however, it's virtually possible for any storage system
  to be affected, with the described manual configuration change.  So, this
  change is also desired on for the next stable release, 17.04, and later.

  Patches are provided for 16.04 and 17.04.

  Error logs in LP comment #6.

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