Bug#445876: initramfs-tools: DEVICE /dev/sd* in mdadm.conf prevents finding of lvm volume groups

[maximilian attems]

reassign 445876 mdadm
stop

On Mon, 08 Oct 2007, Martin Sofaru wrote:

> Package: initramfs-tools
> Version: 0.85h
> Severity: normal

wrong package the mdadm hooks pertain to mdadm ;)
 
> having 
> DEVICE /dev/sd*
> or
> DEVICE /dev/sd[ab]
> in mdadm.conf (as specified in the mdadm.conf manpage) prevents finding of root lvm volumegroup by initrd. 
> 
> setting 
> DEVICE partitions
> and then running update-initramfs -u solves this problem.

i thought mdadm.conf was machine generated but i might be wrong :O
 
> -- Package-specific info:
> -- /proc/cmdline
> root=/dev/mapper/vgMandy0-mandy_root ro md=d0,/dev/sda,/dev/sdb pci=nommconf 
> 
> -- /proc/filesystems
> 	cramfs
> 	ext3
> 
> -- lsmod
> Module                  Size  Used by
> button                 12192  0 
> ac                     10376  0 
> battery                15496  0 
> ipv6                  286048  18 
> loop                   20112  0 
> snd_hda_intel          23708  0 
> snd_hda_codec         184192  1 snd_hda_intel
> snd_pcm                89096  2 snd_hda_intel,snd_hda_codec
> snd_timer              29192  1 snd_pcm
> snd                    65256  4 snd_hda_intel,snd_hda_codec,snd_pcm,snd_timer
> soundcore              15392  1 snd
> serio_raw              12036  0 
> snd_page_alloc         14864  2 snd_hda_intel,snd_pcm
> psmouse                44432  0 
> pcspkr                  7808  0 
> evdev                  15360  0 
> parport_pc             41640  0 
> parport                44684  1 parport_pc
> intel_agp              30400  1 
> floppy                 67112  0 
> dm_mirror              25216  0 
> dm_snapshot            20664  0 
> dm_mod                 62800  5 dm_mirror,dm_snapshot
> usbhid                 45088  0 
> ide_generic             5760  0 [permanent]
> ehci_hcd               36104  0 
> e1000                 123968  0 
> uhci_hcd               28696  0 
> generic                10500  0 [permanent]
> ide_core              147584  2 ide_generic,generic
> thermal                20240  0 
> processor              38248  1 thermal
> fan                     9864  0 
> ext3                  138512  1 
> jbd                    65392  1 ext3
> mbcache                14216  1 ext3
> ata_piix               19976  0 
> sata_sil24             20740  0 
> ahci                   24708  2 
> libata                106784  3 ata_piix,sata_sil24,ahci
> sd_mod                 25856  2 
> scsi_mod              153008  3 ahci,libata,sd_mod
> raid1                  27008  1 
> md_mod                 82844  3 raid1
> 
> -- kernel-img.conf
> # Kernel image management overrides
> # See kernel-img.conf(5) for details
> do_symlinks = yes
> relative_links = yes
> do_bootloader = no
> do_bootfloppy = no
> do_initrd = yes
> link_in_boot = no
> postinst_hook = update-grub
> postrm_hook   = update-grub
> 
> 
> -- System Information:
> Debian Release: 4.0
>   APT prefers stable
>   APT policy: (500, 'stable')
> Architecture: i386 (x86_64)
> Shell:  /bin/sh linked to /bin/bash
> Kernel: Linux 2.6.18-5-amd64
> Locale: LANG=en_US.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=en_US.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8)
> 
> Versions of packages initramfs-tools depends on:
> ii  busybox                       1:1.1.3-4  Tiny utilities for small and embed
> ii  cpio                          2.6-17     GNU cpio -- a program to manage ar
> ii  klibc-utils                   1.4.34-1   small statically-linked utilities 
> ii  module-init-tools             3.3-pre4-2 tools for managing Linux kernel mo
> ii  udev                          0.105-4    /dev/ and hotplug management daemo
> 
> initramfs-tools recommends no packages.
> 
> -- no debconf information
> 
> 
> 
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-- 
maks