Bug 164336 - Cannot start up with dmraid partition entries in /etc/fstab
Summary: Cannot start up with dmraid partition entries in /etc/fstab
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Status: CLOSED DUPLICATE of bug 151585
Alias: None
Product: Red Hat Enterprise Linux 4
Classification: Red Hat
Component: dmraid
Version: 4.0
Hardware: i386
OS: Linux
medium
medium
Target Milestone: ---
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Assignee: Heinz Mauelshagen
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Reported: 2005-07-27 01:36 UTC by Suzuki Takashi
Modified: 2007-11-30 22:07 UTC (History)
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Last Closed: 2005-07-27 12:20:01 UTC
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Description Suzuki Takashi 2005-07-27 01:36:35 UTC
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Description of problem:
When I have a mount entry for /dev/dm-0 in /etc/fstab,
the startup script complains that /dev/dm-0 doesn't exist and 
prompts root's password.
The message was something like:
*** An error occurred during the file system check.
*** Dropping you to a shell; the system will reboot
*** when you leave the shell.

If I set a noauto option to the fstab entry, or just comment it out, 
things are ok except the partition is not mounted at all.

The relevant fstab entry is:
/dev/dm-0               /work                   ext3    defaults        1 2


Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable):
dmraid-1.0.0.rc6.1-3_RHEL4_U1

How reproducible:
Always

Steps to Reproduce:
1. Add and set up a ATARAID card with hard drives.
2. Boot.
3. Check if the ATARAID is properly configured by `dmraid -cccs.'
4. Enable it with `dmraid -ay.'
5. Create a partition into /dev/dm-0.
6. Add a mount entry for /dev/dm-0 to /etc/fstab.
7. Reboot.


Actual Results:  Stop during startup and cannot be logged in, etc. any more.


Expected Results:  Startup finishes and /dev/dm-0 is correctly mounted to /work.


Additional info:

My ATARAID card is Promise FastTrak TX2000 and correctly detected as following:
# /sbin/dmraid -cccs
pdc_dhiibgdi:585937500:128:mirror:ok:0:2:0
/dev/hde:pdc:pdc_dhiibgdi:mirror:ok:585937500:0
/dev/hdg:pdc:pdc_dhiibgdi:mirror:ok:585937500:0

Comment 1 Suzuki Takashi 2005-07-27 01:44:11 UTC
There should be a dmraid enable action in the startup scripts like:
# dmraid initialization
action $"Setting up dmraid:" /sbin/dmraid -ay

When I added the lines above into rc.sysinit, 
just after LVM initialization action, 
startup came to be finished and the partition was properly mounted.

But I don't know if the location is best or 
how to test if any dmraid devices exist before running /sbin/dmraid, 
which might be necessary.


Comment 2 Heinz Mauelshagen 2005-07-27 12:20:01 UTC
This will be covered by adding installer support to Anaconda and enhancements to
the initscripts, which are in the works already.

*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of 151585 ***


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