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Description of problem: After booting after updates, dracut reports dracut: Waiting for /dev/md127 to become clean (which means wait for over 1 hour until system is usable) Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable): kernel-3.1.2-1.fc16 dracut-013-19.fc16.noarch How reproducible: After every reboot until finally the RAID is resynced Expected results: Booting with background resync Additional info: kernel-3.1.1-2.fc16 with older ramdisk still behaves fine Is there any workaround known to disable /usr/share/dracut/modules.d/90mdraid/mdraid-waitclean.sh in the ramdisk somehow or make this at least optional?
Just installed fedora 16 (bios boot and boot partition non raid, swap and encrypted LVM PV on raid1, LVM group with four LVs tmp, root, home and var). I got exactly the same situation/kernel. 750Gb is going to take a long time I guess. PS (unrelated) So far the fedora 16 installation experience has been pretty bad. First I tried preupgrade (from f15). Didn't work because var on different partition ... Then I tried a new installation, but anaconda couldn't handle dual monitors apparently (worked fine with f15) Then I installed /boot on raid, but didn't work either (grub2 no such disk found). Reinstalled and put on /boot non raid. grub2 works, but run into the dracut problem above ... :-)
My current workaround: unpack initramfs, remove lib/dracut/hooks/pre-mount/10dmraid-waitclean.sh, and repack initramfs
Just got bitten by this today after a power outage. I run RAID1 specifically to avoid outages as much as possible, waiting for the array to be synched means waiting for 2+ hours with no way to get anything done. I had to run an older kernel to get the system going. Peter's workaround works as expected, I didn't notice any harmful side effects. My platform is x86_64, so this isn't i686-only.
Changing arch to all. This is pretty bad - I have to drive to the server room today in order to discover the server has been waiting for its 4-way RAID-10 array to become synced.
dracut-013-20.fc16 has been submitted as an update for Fedora 16. https://admin.fedoraproject.org/updates/dracut-013-20.fc16
Package dracut-013-20.fc16: * should fix your issue, * was pushed to the Fedora 16 testing repository, * should be available at your local mirror within two days. Update it with: # su -c 'yum update --enablerepo=updates-testing dracut-013-20.fc16' as soon as you are able to, then reboot. Please go to the following url: https://admin.fedoraproject.org/updates/FEDORA-2011-17051/dracut-013-20.fc16 then log in and leave karma (feedback).
dracut-013-20.fc16 has been pushed to the Fedora 16 stable repository. If problems still persist, please make note of it in this bug report.