@Jeremy Foshee I ran my apport-collect on a Karmic server above. I had the same workaround as one of the above commenters. I had a useless, incomplete md_d0 listed in mdstat which had claimed three of the four devices in my RAID. I stopped md_d0 and assembled the RAID again with success.
$ cat /proc/mdstat Personalities : [raid0] md_d0 : inactive sde[3](S) sdc[1](S) sdd[2](S) 1321098048 blocks unused devices: <none> # mdadm --assemble /dev/md0 /dev/sdb /dev/sdc /dev/sdd /dev/sde mdadm: /dev/md0 has been started with 4 drives. # cat /proc/mdstat Personalities : [raid0] md0 : active raid0 sdb[0] sde[3] sdd[2] sdc[1] 1761460224 blocks 1024k chunks unused devices: <none> ** Tags added: karmic -- mdadm cannot assemble array as cannot open drive with O_EXCL https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/27037 You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is a direct subscriber. -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list ubuntu-bugs@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs