The behaviour is reproducible. Running checkarray --all always hangs
the box after some time with the symptoms described. That's true even
in single user mode with no other accesses.
I will now check if checking (no pun intended) the arrays serially works.
As this looks more like a kernel bug in
Package: mdadm
Version: 2.6.7.2-3
Severity: normal
Tonight's checkarray triggered a slew of SATA errors, which finally
caused the machine to lock up completely (see attached syslog).
Possibly the hardware is flakey, but then I've been stressing it a lot
in the last few weeks without any
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