Bug#384611: mdadm - loops if superblock is broken

[martin f krafft]

also sprach Bastian Blank <waldi at debian.org> [2006.08.25.1322 +0100]:
> mdadm initscripts loops if a superblock is broken:

which initscript? mdadm-raid?

> | mdadm: failed to add /dev/sdb2 to /dev/md/0: Invalid argument
> | mdadm: failed to RUN_ARRAY /dev/md/0: Invalid argument
> | md: invalid superblock checksum on sdb2
> | md: sdb2 has invalid sb, not importing!
> | md: md_import_device returned -22
> | mdadm: failed to add /dev/sdb2 to /dev/md/0: Invalid argument
> | mdadm: failed to RUN_ARRAY /dev/md/0: Invalid argument
> | md: invalid superblock checksum on sdb2
> | md: sdb2 has invalid sb, not importing!
> | md: md_import_device returned -22
> 
> This is not cancelable and breaks the whole machine.

What happens if you run

  mdadm -Asayes

from the command line?

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