Re: [Hampshire] Software RAID arrays failing to assemble aut…

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Author: Andy Smith
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To: hampshire
Subject: Re: [Hampshire] Software RAID arrays failing to assemble automatically on Ubuntu 7.10 (Gutsy)

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gpg: keyblock resource '/var/lib/lurker/pubring.gpg': Permission denied
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On Sun, Jan 20, 2008 at 05:54:34PM +0000, Tony Whitmore wrote:
> There is an init script at S25 in runlevel 2 (Debian/Ubuntu's default
> runlevel) which starts mdadm, but AFAICT this only starts the mdadm
> monitoring process, it isn't responsible for constructing any arrays etc.


It should also assemble any arrays here that weren't already
assembled by the kernel, I think..

> I've searched around but whilst there are many guides to setting up
> software RAID there doesn't seem to be a bug report which describes this
> problem. What I need to make happen is to assemble the software RAID
> array earlier in boot, i.e. before /home is mounted. The kernel running is:
>
> Linux omega 2.6.22-14-386 #1 Tue Dec 18 07:34:24 UTC 2007 i686 GNU/Linux
>
> Can anyone point me in the right direction, please?


What's in /etc/mdadm/mdadm.conf?

What does "mdadm -D /dev/mdX" say, for the device with your /home
on?

Cheers,
Andy