From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: from lists.gentoo.org (pigeon.gentoo.org [208.92.234.80]) by finch.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 1FF7B138C9D for ; Tue, 2 Jun 2015 09:42:45 +0000 (UTC) Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with SMTP id A185CE0964; Tue, 2 Jun 2015 09:42:35 +0000 (UTC) Received: from smarthost01b.mail.zen.net.uk (smarthost01b.mail.zen.net.uk [212.23.1.3]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 34A28E0942 for ; Tue, 2 Jun 2015 09:42:34 +0000 (UTC) Received: from [82.69.80.10] (helo=wstn.localnet) by smarthost01b.mail.zen.net.uk with esmtps (TLS1.0:DHE_RSA_AES_256_CBC_SHA1:256) (Exim 4.80) (envelope-from ) id 1YziiP-0009wo-2W for gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org; Tue, 02 Jun 2015 09:42:33 +0000 From: Peter Humphrey To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] Failure to start md at boot Date: Tue, 02 Jun 2015 10:42:31 +0100 Message-ID: <1677469.Ah80pmlNML@wstn> User-Agent: KMail/4.14.3 (Linux/3.18.12-gentoo; KDE/4.14.3; x86_64; ; ) In-Reply-To: <201505311634.28687.michaelkintzios@gmail.com> References: <130281423.bVMpkzIQgX@wstn> <3630949.rRDaPsHZhL@wstn> <201505311634.28687.michaelkintzios@gmail.com> Precedence: bulk List-Post: List-Help: List-Unsubscribe: List-Subscribe: List-Id: Gentoo Linux mail X-BeenThere: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Reply-to: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7Bit Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" X-Originating-smarthost01b-IP: [82.69.80.10] X-Archives-Salt: 340420b7-3b46-4539-9f6a-986fa5503dd9 X-Archives-Hash: e030d39a418ab04790d43bbaf822eb17 On Sunday 31 May 2015 16:34:19 Mick wrote: > On Sunday 31 May 2015 16:09:22 Peter Humphrey wrote: > > On Sunday 31 May 2015 15:18:19 Peter Humphrey wrote: > > > On Sunday 31 May 2015 13:06:58 Mick wrote: > > > > On Sunday 31 May 2015 10:01:43 Peter Humphrey wrote: > > > > > On Friday 29 May 2015 01:10:52 I wrote: > > > > > > OK, so this is what I have at present. I haven't booted with it > > > > > > yet > > > > > > to test it - I'll do that in the morning: > > > > > > > > > > > > DEVICE /dev/sd[abcde][123456789] > > > > > > ARRAY /dev/md1 UUID=ea156c7f:183ca28e:c44c77eb:7ee19756 > > > > > > ARRAY /dev/md5 UUID=e7640378:966a5b3a:c44c77eb:7ee19756 > > > > > > ARRAY /dev/md7 UUID=c2d056c4:9118021f:ad73c633:b38fa97c > > > > > > > > > > Specifying the UUIDs hasn't helped. I still get failure to start > > > > > /dev/md7 > > > > > during boot as often as not. > > > > > > > > Did you try my suggestion to (also) specify the metadata type to see > > > > if > > > > it makes a difference? > > > > > > Ah, no, I missed that. I'll try it and see how it goes. > > > > It hasn't helped. > > > > I think I know what the problem is: namely, that I haven't discovered how > > to set up lvmetad. I get an error "lvmetad is running but disabled" but if > > I enable it in /etc/lvm/lvm.conf I get a different error. What should I be > > doing here? Google hasn't helped me. > > > > In my own defence, I did mention this on Wednesday. > > Sorry, but I don't really know much about LVM because I've never used it in > anger. I just (re)size my partitions as I need them to be. However, I see > this mentioned in the Wiki: > > https://wiki.gentoo.org/wiki/Talk:LVM Yes, I'd seen that, and several other sites that shed a little light. One thing that does seem to have helped is that I've removed mdraid from the boot run level. Bug 521280 refers. It seems that mdraid must be in the boot run level during installation and the first few boots of the system, but should be removed again when the error "mdadm: No arrays found in config file or automatically" starts appearing at boot time. -- Rgds Peter