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Bug 1763195 - Invalid environment assignment, ignoring: MDADM_CHECK_DURATION='"6 hours"'
Summary: Invalid environment assignment, ignoring: MDADM_CHECK_DURATION='"6 hours"'
Keywords:
Status: CLOSED DUPLICATE of bug 1774354
Alias: None
Product: Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7
Classification: Red Hat
Component: mdadm
Version: 7.7
Hardware: x86_64
OS: Linux
unspecified
low
Target Milestone: rc
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Assignee: XiaoNi
QA Contact: Storage QE
URL:
Whiteboard:
Depends On:
Blocks:
TreeView+ depends on / blocked
 
Reported: 2019-10-18 13:02 UTC by jtougne
Modified: 2022-11-11 14:05 UTC (History)
6 users (show)

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Last Closed: 2020-04-17 16:38:34 UTC
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errors from /var/log/messages and config files (2.56 KB, application/zip)
2019-10-18 13:02 UTC, jtougne 		no flags Details
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Description jtougne 2019-10-18 13:02:48 UTC 
Created attachment 1627195 [details]
errors from /var/log/messages and config files

Description of problem:

Default configuration of mdadm generates errors in /var/log/messages.

Example errors:
Oct 17 13:31:24 Hostname systemd: [/usr/lib/systemd/system/mdcheck_start.service:14] Invalid environment assignment, ignoring: MDADM_CHECK_DURATION='"6 hours"'
Oct 17 13:31:24 Hostname systemd: [/usr/lib/systemd/system/mdcheck_continue.service:14] Invalid environment assignment, ignoring: MDADM_CHECK_DURATION='"6 hours"'
Oct 17 13:31:24 Hostname systemd: [/usr/lib/systemd/system/mdcheck_continue.service:14] Invalid environment assignment, ignoring: MDADM_CHECK_DURATION='"6 hours"'
Oct 17 13:31:24 Hostname systemd: [/usr/lib/systemd/system/mdcheck_start.service:14] Invalid environment assignment, ignoring: MDADM_CHECK_DURATION='"6 hours"'
Oct 17 13:31:24 Hostname systemd: [/usr/lib/systemd/system/mdcheck_continue.service:14] Invalid environment assignment, ignoring: MDADM_CHECK_DURATION='"6 hours"'
Oct 17 13:31:24 Hostname systemd: [/usr/lib/systemd/system/mdcheck_continue.service:14] Invalid environment assignment, ignoring: MDADM_CHECK_DURATION='"6 hours"'
Oct 17 13:31:24 Hostname systemd: [/usr/lib/systemd/system/mdcheck_start.timer:12] Failed to parse calendar specification, ignoring: Sun *-*-1..7 1:00:00
Oct 17 13:31:24 Hostname systemd: mdcheck_start.timer lacks value setting. Refusing.

Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable):
mdadm 4.1-1.el7

How reproducible:
journalctl -p err or less /var/log/messages

Steps to Reproduce:
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Actual results:
Some errors are present.

Expected results:
No errors.

Additional info:
These errors started occuring after we migrated from RHEL7.6 to RHEL7.7

I did some reading, I suspect a few issues:
MDADM_CHECK_DURATION='"6 hours"'
-> should it not be "6 hours" instead?

OnCalendar=Sun *-*-1..7 1:00:00
-> is that correct?


Cheers,
Comment 2 Matt Wyen 2020-03-05 15:57:30 UTC 
I'm having a similar issue with RHEL server v7.7
Comment 3 Nigel Croxon 2020-04-17 16:38:34 UTC 

*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of bug 1774354 ***
Comment 4 Armstrong 2022-11-11 14:05:33 UTC Comment hidden (spam)
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