failing to boot pass mdadm monitor

[Asif Iqbal]

On Tue, Mar 13, 2012 at 12:35 AM, Peter M. Petrakis
<peter.petrakis at canonical.com> wrote:
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> On 03/13/2012 12:09 AM, Asif Iqbal wrote:
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>> On Mon, Mar 12, 2012 at 4:13 PM, Asif Iqbal<vadud3 at gmail.com>  wrote:
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>>> I am failing to boot this server x4270 pass the mdadm --monitor.
>>> Installed lucid amd64. This is a first install.
>>>
>>> details: http://paste.ubuntu.com/880895/
>>>
>>> It boots all the way in recovery mode. what gives?
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>> ok. I reinstalled lucid 64bit. No more GPT error. But it hangs right
>> after mdadm --monitor
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> At least that's an improvement.
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>> http://paste.ubuntu.com/881409/
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>
> ...
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> mdadm: sending ioctl 1261 to a partition!
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> (I confused syscall with storage ioctl earlier, whoops :)
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> Now that we're just down to this problem, a little google...
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> http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=656899:
> https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=783823
> https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=783955
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> http://www.serverphorums.com/read.php?12,436266
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> and ... I think there's a fix:
> https://lkml.org/lkml/2012/1/24/136
>
> Probably worth filing a bug at this point, also please try and
> reproduce this issue with oneiric, and the latest mainline
> kernel  [1] if possible. Thanks.

installed oneiric this time. failed to mount /var, /home, /opt and
/usr/local LVs.
I had to run vgchange -a y to make those LVs available and then
booted all the way. details: http://paste.ubuntu.com/882168/

And I choose skip.. it does boot all the way but not so useful w/o /var
as shown below.

/dev/mapper/vg0-root: clean, 7197/610800 files, 133568/2441216 blocks
/dev/md0: clean, 229/97536 files, 46927/390132 blocks
/dev/mapper/vg0-usr: clean, 44869/610800 files, 182623/2441216 blocks
The disk drive for /home is not ready yet or not present.
Continue to wait, or Press S to skip mounting or M for manual recovery

Skipping /home at user request
The disk drive for /opt is not ready yet or not present.
Continue to wait, or Press S to skip mounting or M for manual recovery

Skipping /opt at user request
The disk drive for /usr/local is not ready yet or not present.
Continue to wait, or Press S to skip mounting or M for manual recovery

Skipping /usr/local at user request
The disk drive for /var is not ready yet or not present.
Continue to wait, or Press S to skip mounting or M for manual recovery

Skipping /var at user request
 * Starting AppArmor profiles                                            [ OK ]
 * Starting MD monitoring service mdadm --monitor                        [ OK ]
cd: 33: can't cd to /var/cache/pppconfig

Ubuntu 11.10 apa-splunk-05 ttyS0

apa-splunk-05 login:

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> Peter
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> 1. https://wiki.ubuntu.com/Kernel/MainlineBuilds
>   http://kernel.ubuntu.com/~kernel-ppa/mainline/
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>>> A: Because it messes up the order in which people normally read text.
>>> Q: Why is top-posting such a bad thing?
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Asif Iqbal
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A: Because it messes up the order in which people normally read text.
Q: Why is top-posting such a bad thing?