Bug#814036: initramfs-tools: mdadm doesn't assemble disk

[Dimitri John Ledkov]

Thanks. Would you be able at all check if the RAID was always rebuilt
on each boot? From past boot logs or some such.

Regards,

Dimitri.

On 22 February 2016 at 18:19, Chris Boot <bootc at debian.org> wrote:
> Hi folks,
>
> I think that this bug is a regression due to the fix for #784070, which
> was fairly recently pushed to both unstable and *stable*. We have at
> least one client server that got bitten by this and failed to boot.
>
> I suspect the incremental assembly, which breaks booting from degraded
> arrays, was sufficient to start arrays on block devices that take a bit
> longer to show up than usual. With that now disabled, if the disks
> haven't showed up by the time mdadm runs in local-top, you're screwed.
>
> Adding "rootdelay=15" to the kernel command-line probably fixes this
> (can't test as we can't just reboot this production server at will) but
> this isn't a nice fix.
>
> It seems like #714155 is also somehow related, but hasn't seen any
> activity since July 2013.
>
> HTH,
> Chris
>
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Regards,

Dimitri.