[Bug 941874] Re: (fakeraid) root device not activated during boot

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Just worked around the same problem that Adi Piracalabu described.
Installed Ubuntu 12.04 release Amd64 image on fakeraid raid5. With my
boot loader, root directory and swap all on a separate disc. Then my
home directory on my raid 5. Installation completed successfully.

Rebooting fails to mount my raid5 drive, I skip mounting the home
directory and I can't access my main account that has the home directory
on those discs. Logging in with a guest account and creating a separate
admin account with my main accounts passwords, permitted me to install
dmraid. With a reboot from that software state. The home directory on
the raid5 is mounted and my account that has the home directory in the
raid5 is accessible. That's where it works for me right now.

With some analysis, after a few re installations. I noticed that the
installation of 12.04 does not install dmraid at all? Basically if I
performed the installation and continued to try ubuntu before restarting
into it. Then mounted the disk I installed to. Dmraid does not appear to
be installed in the libs, binaries, initramfs...

While trying ubuntu 12.04 the raids are accessible, but when you install
12.04, it skips or fails the dmraid package and the rest of those
dependencies.

If this could be fixed; if the installer can successfully place the
dmraid package, if it installs on a system that has fakeraids; then I
think I'll finally be able to boot off of a fakeraid without a
workaround.

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Title:
  (fakeraid) root device not activated during boot

Status in “dmraid” package in Ubuntu:
  Fix Released
Status in “multipath-tools” package in Ubuntu:
  Fix Released

Bug description:
  I have installed Precise Pangolin Alpha 2 to a fakeraid stripe, but
  ubuntu fails to boot after install. When choosing recovery option, the
  boot process times out waiting for root device and drops to busybox
  shell. Running "dmraid -ay" and exiting busybox resumes boot and it
  continues normally.

  ---
  The problems are:

  * There are no initramfs hooks for kpartx, so kpartx is not available during boot.
  the following files are needed:
  /sbin/kpartx
  /lib/udev/kpartx_id
  /lib/udev/dmsetup_env
  /lib/udev/rules.d/95-kpartx.rules

  * The hook for dmraid udev rules is wrong:
  The script /usr/share/initramfs-tools/hooks/dmraid
  tries to add:
  /lib/udev/rules.d/85-dmraid.rules
  but the existing file is called:
  /lib/udev/rules.d/97-dmraid.rules

  After fixing the above two issues, system boots normally.

  * dmraid-activate is sometimes called with full device name
  dmraid-activate expecte device name withouth "/dev/", e.g. "sda" not "/dev/sda". However the script
  /usr/share/initramfs-tools/scripts/local-top/dmraid
  calls dmraid-activate using the full device name and path.

  * There might also be antoher bug on line 100 in dmraid-activate (in the awk script):
      # Heximal to decimal conversion array
      for (i = 0; i <= 9; i++) hex2dec[i] = i
      hex2dec["a"] = 10; hex2dec["b"] = 11; hex2dec["c"] = 12
      hex2dec["e"] = 13; hex2dec["d"] = 14; hex2dec["f"] = 15;
  Element "e" and "d" appears to have been switched. I'm not entirely sure what the script is trying to do though, and that part of the script does not affect my system.

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  ProblemType: Bug
  DistroRelease: Ubuntu 12.04
  Package: dmraid 1.0.0.rc16-4.1ubuntu6 [modified: sbin/dmraid-activate usr/share/initramfs-tools/scripts/local-top/dmraid]
  ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 3.2.0-17.26-generic 3.2.6
  Uname: Linux 3.2.0-17-generic x86_64
  NonfreeKernelModules: fglrx
  ApportVersion: 1.93-0ubuntu2
  Architecture: amd64
  Date: Mon Feb 27 12:59:55 2012
  InstallationMedia: Ubuntu 12.04 LTS "Precise Pangolin" - Alpha amd64 (20120201.2)
  ProcEnviron:
   PATH=(custom, user)
   LANG=sv_SE.UTF-8
   SHELL=/bin/bash
  SourcePackage: dmraid
  UpgradeStatus: Upgraded to precise on 2012-02-21 (5 days ago)

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