On 19-11-2024 18:46, Udo Grabowski (IMK) wrote:
> Hi,
> for a while now, stmsboot drops the error message below, but after
> reboot, it works fine. The message is actually caused by
> /lib/mpxio/stmsboot_util -D mpt_sas -N, which spits out '|iport'
> instead of 'iport', letting the search in /dev/dsk/* for it fail.
> The consequence is that former automatic discovery for vhci-capable
> disks fails and you have to revert to the failover list in
> /kernel/drv/scsi_vhci.conf again. stmsboot_util is a compiled
> executable.
> 
> # stmsboot -e -D mpt_sas
> WARNING: This operation will require a reboot.
> Do you want to continue ? [y/n] (default: y) y
> egrep: RE error in |iport: invalid regular expression  <===========
> ...


Looks like an oversight for an edge case:

  -N
385  	 *	same as the -n option, except that we only print the
386  	 *	node-name (dev_info :: devi_node_name). Multiple instances
387  	 *	through the libdevinfo snapshot are uniqified and separated
388  	 *	by the "|" character for direct use by egrep(1).

For only one item, there should be no "|" .
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