Bug#534274: [mdadm] mdadm fails to assemble raid array on boot with kernel 2.6.26

2009-06-26 Thread Giuseppe Iuculano
reopen 534274 thanks Hi Christian, Christian Gunning ha scritto: that space. What's not trivial is understanding why this configuration doesn't boot, yielding messages about no root device, then using a livecd and chroot to fiddle with initramfs, and finally discovering this bug with

Bug#534274: [mdadm] mdadm fails to assemble raid array on boot with kernel 2.6.26

2009-06-26 Thread Christian Gunning
I understand that it may not *look* grave, but it's pretty bad behavior in user-land. I disagree, if user creates (with the controller bios utility) a fakeraid array, dmraid assumes correctly the partition device nodes as part of a dmraid array. If user adds them in a software (mdadm) raid,

Bug#534274: [mdadm] mdadm fails to assemble raid array on boot with kernel 2.6.26

2009-06-24 Thread Lior Chen
Hi, On Tuesday 23 June 2009 09:33:45 you wrote: also sprach Lior Chen li...@lirtex.com [2009.06.23.0810 +0200]: With kernels newer than 2.6.26-2 (I have tried both 2.6.29-2 and 2.6.30-1) mdadm fails to assemble raid array on boot: Assembling all MD arrays... md: md0 stopped mdadm: no

Bug#534274: [mdadm] mdadm fails to assemble raid array on boot with kernel 2.6.26

2009-06-24 Thread martin f krafft
retitle 534274 dmraid breaks mdadm-based system reassign 534274 dmraid notfound 534274 2.6.9-3 found 534274 1.0.0.rc15-7 thanks also sprach Lior Chen li...@lirtex.com [2009.06.24.0800 +0200]: I have managed to fully reproduce this. This situation arose from mistakenly installing the dmraid

Bug#534274: [mdadm] mdadm fails to assemble raid array on boot with kernel 2.6.26

2009-06-24 Thread Giuseppe Iuculano
forcemerge 533848 534274 thanks Hi, martin f krafft ha scritto: also sprach Lior Chen li...@lirtex.com [2009.06.24.0800 +0200]: I have managed to fully reproduce this. This situation arose from mistakenly installing the dmraid package along with the mdadm package (or maybe it was

Bug#534274: [mdadm] mdadm fails to assemble raid array on boot with kernel 2.6.26

2009-06-24 Thread martin f krafft
also sprach Giuseppe Iuculano giuse...@iuculano.it [2009.06.24.1107 +0200]: This is because now the dmraid-activate script uses the newly introduced -Z flag to instruct the kernel to remove partition device nodes from array member disk. This was necessary to avoid race conditions with udev

Bug#534274: [mdadm] mdadm fails to assemble raid array on boot with kernel 2.6.26

2009-06-23 Thread Lior Chen
Package: mdadm Version: 2.6.9-3 Severity: grave --- Please enter the report below this line. --- Hi, With kernels newer than 2.6.26-2 (I have tried both 2.6.29-2 and 2.6.30-1) mdadm fails to assemble raid array on boot: Assembling all MD arrays... md: md0 stopped mdadm: no devices found for

Bug#534274: [mdadm] mdadm fails to assemble raid array on boot with kernel 2.6.26

2009-06-23 Thread martin f krafft
also sprach Lior Chen li...@lirtex.com [2009.06.23.0810 +0200]: With kernels newer than 2.6.26-2 (I have tried both 2.6.29-2 and 2.6.30-1) mdadm fails to assemble raid array on boot: Assembling all MD arrays... md: md0 stopped mdadm: no devices found for /dev/md0 Failure: failed to