Bug#830300: RE: Bug#830300: bug in mdadm

[Любен Каравелов]

I will give it a try in 5 days (currently I am away from the machine and don't want to experiment if it can boot or not with the new conig) and will report back. Thanks for the suggestion.

----- Цитат от Michael Biebl (biebl at debian.org), на 26.07.2016 в 15:36 -----

> On Sat, 9 Jul 2016 19:47:07 +0300
> =?utf-8?B?0JvRjtCx0LXQvSDQmtCw0YDQsNCy0LXQu9C+0LI=?= <karavelov at mail.bg>
> wrote:
>> Hi,
>> 
>> The problem I am trying to solve is that my laptop (ASUS Zenbook UX301LAA) is using Intel RAID0 setup:
>> 
>> 00:1f.2 RAID bus controller: Intel Corporation 82801 Mobile SATA Controller [RAID mode] (rev 04)
>> 
>> But it stopped working 5-6 months ago (3.3.2-5 was the last version that was working out of the box). My understanding is that for some reason mdadm is not recognizing the setup as being a IMSM RAID and I was forcing the RAID assembly to bypass this check with the envvars until this was also broken by the last mdadm update.
>> 
>> BTW, I also tried another workaround but it does not work also for me with the last debian mdadm package:
>> https://bbs.archlinux.org/viewtopic.php?id=202597
>> 
>> For the moment I downgraded the mdadm and put it on hold.
>> 
>> Any other suggestions are welcome.
>> 
> 
> You mentioned you tried the workaround from the arch forum, I suspect
> you meant https://bbs.archlinux.org/viewtopic.php?pid=1565988#p1565988
> specifically.
> Keep in mind, that you need to rebuild the initramfs (via
> update-initramfs -u) after changing the udev rule.
> 
> 
> # lsinitramfs /boot/initrd.img-$(uname -r) | grep env
> shows that the initramfs installs the env utility under /bin/env and not
> /usr/bin/env. So this would need to be considered when changing
> 64-md-raid-assembly.rules.
> 
> Maybe it's better to use --force instead, as upstream suggests.
> The attached rules files should do that (please double check).
> Please copy that to /etc/udev/rules.d/, update your initramfs via
> update-initramfs -u and try again.
> 
> Regards,
> Michael
> 
> 
> 
> *) It's usually also better to copy the file to /etc/udev/rules.d/ and
> edit it there, so the file is not overwritten on upgrades.
> 
> 
> 
> -- 
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--
Luben Karavelov