Re: Kernel 2.6 + Raid + base-config = problem?

From: olli (olito24_at_gmx.de)
Date: 03/31/05

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    Date: Thu, 31 Mar 2005 15:26:10 +0200
To: hjvm@freenet.de

    hi,

    i'm having a similar problem at the moment and i'm trying to figure out
    if it is caused by
    this bug -> http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=294404

    you may have a look at a description of my case:
    http://lists.debian.org/debian-user/2005/03/msg03799.html
    and the following discussion:
    http://lists.debian.org/debian-user/2005/03/msg03949.html

    regards,
    oliver

    Am 31.03.2005 um 14:23 schrieb hjvm@freenet.de:

    > Hello everybody!
    >
    > (I hope this is the right list to post this...) I've installed Debian
    > sarge from the current
    > testing on 29/03/2005 with Kernel 2.6 using four Raid1 partitions. I
    > didn't install any
    > additional tasks with base-config at first. Everything went fine, I
    > was able to reboot into
    > the system and to access the raid partitions. The root directory is on
    > a raid partition and
    > even that works!
    > But: I started base-config and installed the desktop environment. The
    > install went fine.
    > But after the next reboot the system was broken. The first raid
    > partition with root on it
    > still worked, so I was able to boot into a minimal system. But the
    > other three raid
    > partitions notably with /var and /home on it didn't work, so I got
    > lots of error messages.
    > And now it becomes really funny: I was able to recreate the missing
    > raid arrays
    > manually using mdadm --create and to mount them. It worked, I could
    > use them. Yet
    > after another reboot they had vanished again. If I don't use
    > base-config to install the
    > desktop environment but fetch the packages manually with aptitude
    > everything is fine.
    > And if I make an install with Kernel 2.4 instead of 2.6 I can use
    > base-config to install and
    > it works, too.
    > So it seems that using base-config after an install with Kernel 2.6 on
    > raid partitions
    > breaks all raid partitions except the first. As there is a simple
    > workaround, i. e. installing
    > the packages manually, it's not a big problem. But it took me two days
    > to figure that out.
    > What was I doing wrong or might it be that there is a bug in
    > base-config?
    > If anyone has encountered similar problems I'd be interested to hear
    > about that.
    > Browsing the mailing lists I see that this problem already appeared in
    > September 2004
    > and was supposed to be fixed a long time ago. But apparently it isn't,
    > at least in my
    > case.
    >
    > Thanks
    > Hans-Joerg v. Mettenheim
    >
    >
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