I just preformed an emerge --update world after update grading to portage 2.1-r1. I noticed that mdadm and some other packages were required to be updated to older versions. Since then, I am getting false alarms from mdadm.
--- mdadm monitoring <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > From: mdadm monitoring <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Subject: SparesMissing event on /dev/md4:db_server01 > Date: Thu, 29 Jun 2006 17:31:07 -0700 (PDT) > > This is an automatically generated mail message from mdadm > running on db_server01 > > A SparesMissing event had been detected on md device /dev/md4. > > Faithfully yours, etc. > > P.S. The /proc/mdstat file current contains the following: > > Personalities : [raid1] [raid10] [multipath] [faulty] > md1 : active raid1 hdc2[1] hda2[0] > 61426432 blocks [2/2] [UU] > > md2 : active raid1 hdc3[1] hda3[0] > 9765888 blocks [2/2] [UU] > > md3 : active raid1 hdc5[1] hda5[0] > 4883136 blocks [2/2] [UU] > > md5 : active raid1 hdc6[1] hda6[0] > 977152 blocks [2/2] [UU] > > md6 : active raid1 hdc7[1] hda7[0] > 999296 blocks [2/2] [UU] > > md4 : active raid1 hdj1[0] hdg1[1] > 293049600 blocks [2/2] [UU] > > md0 : active raid1 hdc1[1] hda1[0] > 98176 blocks [2/2] [UU] > > unused devices: <none> > Portage 2.1-r1 (default-linux/x86/2005.1, gcc-3.4.6, glibc-2.3.6-r4, 2.6.16-gentoo-r7 i686) ================================================================= System uname: 2.6.16-gentoo-r7 i686 AMD Athlon(tm) XP 1800+ Gentoo Base System version 1.6.15 ccache version 2.3 [disabled] dev-lang/python: 2.4.3-r1 dev-python/pycrypto: 2.0.1-r5 dev-util/ccache: 2.3 dev-util/confcache: [Not Present] sys-apps/sandbox: 1.2.17 sys-devel/autoconf: 2.13, 2.59-r7 sys-devel/automake: 1.4_p6, 1.5, 1.6.3, 1.7.9-r1, 1.8.5-r3, 1.9.6-r2 sys-devel/binutils: 2.16.1-r2 sys-devel/gcc-config: 1.3.13-r2 sys-devel/libtool: 1.5.22 virtual/os-headers: 2.6.11-r2 ACCEPT_KEYWORDS="x86" AUTOCLEAN="yes" CBUILD="i686-pc-linux-gnu" CFLAGS="-march=athlon-xp -O3 -pipe" CHOST="i686-pc-linux-gnu" CONFIG_PROTECT="/etc /usr/kde/3.4/env /usr/kde/3.4/share/config /usr/kde/3.4/shutdown /usr/lib/X11/xkb /usr/lib/mozilla/defaults/pref /usr/share/config /usr/share/texmf/dvipdfm/config/ /usr/share/texmf/dvips/config/ /usr/share/texmf/tex/generic/config/ /usr/share/texmf/tex/platex/config/ /usr/share/texmf/xdvi/" CONFIG_PROTECT_MASK="/etc/env.d /etc/gconf /etc/revdep-rebuild /etc/splash /etc/terminfo" CXXFLAGS="-march=athlon-xp -O3 -pipe" DISTDIR="/usr/portage/distfiles" FEATURES="autoconfig distlocks metadata-transfer sandbox sfperms strict" GENTOO_MIRRORS="http://gentoo.mirrors.tds.net/gentoo" PKGDIR="/usr/portage/packages" PORTAGE_RSYNC_OPTS="--recursive --links --safe-links --perms --times --compress --force --whole-file --delete --delete-after --stats --timeout=180 --exclude='/distfiles' --exclude='/local' --exclude='/packages'" PORTAGE_TMPDIR="/var/tmp" PORTDIR="/usr/portage" SYNC="rsync://rsync.us.gentoo.org/gentoo-portage" USE="x86 X alsa apm arts avi berkdb bitmap-fonts cli crypt cups dri eds emboss encode foomaticdb fortran gcj gif gnome gpm gstreamer gtk gtk2 hal howl imlib ipv6 isdnlog jpeg libg++ libwww mad maildir metacity mikmod motif mp3 mpeg ncurses nls ogg oggvorbis opengl oss pam pcre pdflib perl png postgres pppd python qt3 qt4 quicktime readline reflection samba sasl sdl server session snmp spell spl ssl symlink tcltk tcpd threads truetype truetype-fonts type1-fonts unicode vorbis xml2 xmms xorg xv zlib elibc_glibc kernel_linux userland_GNU video_cards_radeon" Unset: CTARGET, EMERGE_DEFAULT_OPTS, INSTALL_MASK, LANG, LC_ALL, LDFLAGS, LINGUAS, MAKEOPTS, PORTAGE_RSYNC_EXTRA_OPTS, PORTDIR_OVERLAY -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list