Bug 178728 - when usb raid on usb or firewire raidautorun fails
Summary: when usb raid on usb or firewire raidautorun fails
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Status: CLOSED DUPLICATE of bug 198704
Alias: None
Product: Red Hat Enterprise Linux 4
Classification: Red Hat
Component: initscripts
Version: 4.0
Hardware: i686
OS: Linux
medium
medium
Target Milestone: ---
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Assignee: Bill Nottingham
QA Contact: Brock Organ
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TreeView+ depends on / blocked
 
Reported: 2006-01-23 20:13 UTC by Sal Scotto
Modified: 2014-03-17 02:57 UTC (History)
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Last Closed: 2006-08-01 16:36:31 UTC
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Description Sal Scotto 2006-01-23 20:13:08 UTC
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Description of problem:
I built a usb raid5 device set under md0 which has LVM on top of it, and is NOT the root fielsystem.
md0 is composed of 5 USB drives sd[a-e]

On line 220 on rc.sysinit
echo "raidautorun /dev/md0" | nash --quiet

will fail as it tries to mount /dev/md0 it fails because the usb subsystem has not yet fully created all the udev nodes for the usb devices. This will cause a boot panic and dump you into single user mode.

Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable):
initscripts-7.93.11.EL-1

How reproducible:
Always

Steps to Reproduce:
1. you need 3 external usb hardrives
2. create 3 usb external HD parted as software raid and define md0 to be sd[a-c]
3. reboot

  

Additional info:

Comment 1 Bill Nottingham 2006-01-23 23:03:20 UTC
echo "raidautorun /dev/md0" | nash --quiet

This does not try to mount the device... that does not happen until later.

Can you get the kernel messages when it drops you to single-user mode? Is it
creating an incomplete array?

Comment 2 Sal Scotto 2006-01-24 14:17:04 UTC
when the autorun executes it does try to start md0, sicne the devices arent all
present, the raid fails to start resulting in a failed array with 0 devices
single since udev hasnt added the node for the usb devices yet.

Comment 3 Bill Nottingham 2006-01-24 14:33:49 UTC
OK. mdadm -As later does not reassemble it once it fails, correct?

Comment 4 Sal Scotto 2006-01-24 16:22:05 UTC
mdadm -As will assemble it later on, IF you stop the raidautorun from invoking
so you can finish the boot process without dropping into single user mode.

Comment 5 Bill Nottingham 2006-01-24 16:51:13 UTC
The drop into single user mode should be after mdadm runs.... it shouldn't get
fscked until the second invocation.

Comment 6 Sal Scotto 2006-01-24 19:11:50 UTC
correct, but when it tries to assemble not all the drives are ready , marks
drives as bad, you can force a clean re-assmbly later but once you exit single
user as you know it reboots, doing it all over again

Comment 7 Bill Nottingham 2006-08-01 16:36:31 UTC

*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of 198704 ***


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