Description of problem: the call in rc.sysinit at line ~270 "dmraid -ay --ignorelocking pdc_dhhjahccbf" leads to the error message: ERROR: No arguments allowed with -i Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable): i see this for month, but actually: initscripts-8.31.5-1 How reproducible: dmraid -ay --ignorelocking <any-name> on systems with a non-active (via) raid controller Steps to Reproduce: 1.key in: dmraid -ay --ignorelocking pdc_dhhjahccbf 2. 3. Actual results: ERROR: No arguments allowed with -i Expected results: no errors. Additional info: this is a system with a non-active via raid controller.
This is fixed in rawhide.
maybe it's useful for other users which got the same problem. my solution: https://www.redhat.com/archives/fedora-list/2006-September/msg02311.html
To add to comment #2: a simpler way, after you discovered with 'dmraid -r' that some devices have spurious RAID signatures (drives were possibly "recycled", for example) is to do something like 'dmraid -r -E /dev/sdb' replacing, obviously, "/dev/sdb" with names of devices so affected to erase signatures (metadata). See also bug 176623 for another instance of troubles caused by unexpected signatures.