F16 occasionally breaks RAID1 (md) on boot

[fred smith]

On Thu, Feb 16, 2012 at 02:48:43AM +0000, Andreas M. Kirchwitz wrote:
> Bruno Wolff III <bruno at wolff.to> wrote:
> 
>  > It's probably worth checking that /etc/mdadm.conf looks good. If it doesn't,
>  > fix it and then rebuild your initramfs.
> 
> Good point, but "unfortunately" /etc/mdadm.conf looks perfectly fine.
> Also /etc/fstab and all the harddisk-related entries in /dev. I guess,
> if its just a matter of configuration the RAID devices would always
> fail and not just occasionally.
> 
> What I don't understand is that there are no related error messages
> in /var/log/*. If one of the RAID devices cannot be assembled as it
> should be, I would expect the kernel (or whoever puts the RAID devices
> together) complain about it very loudly.

Have you checked root's email? I found the hard way a year or so
ago when I had a raid failure that emails from mdadm were piling up
in root's mailbox, which gets checked only occasionally.


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