Package: udev
Version: 146-5
Severity: normal

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I've setup a software (mdadm) raid on my system, but at reboot the system
fails to build the raid array.
The array is made of /dev/sdb1 and /dev/sdc1; those partitions spans over
the whole disk.
At boot time the system (usually) complains about /dev/sdc and /dev/sdc1
having a very similar superblock, and suggests to clear the fake one;
however mdadm --zero-superblock does not solve.
In this situation, /dev/sdc1 is not present neither in /dev/ nor in
/proc/partitions, while /dev/sdc, /dev/sdb and /dev/sdb1 are there;
moreover, fdisk -l /dev/sdc says that the partition exists on the disk.
Sometimes the system builds a degraded array in /dev/md127 instead of
/dev/md0, sometimes using /dev/sdb or /dev/sdc.
I've googled for a solution, and the most similar issue I've found is in
http://osdir.com/ml/linux-raid/2009-04/msg00358.html
Tehy say it can be a race condition, and it seems to me coherent with
the behaviour I'm seeing; however I couldn't find on my system the
related udef file, so I couldn't use the proposed workaround.

-- Package-specific info:
-- /etc/udev/rules.d/:
/etc/udev/rules.d/:
total 16
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root  731 Dec  5 09:36 70-persistent-cd.rules
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root  635 Dec  5 09:36 70-persistent-net.rules
lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root   15 Dec  5 16:26 z60_hdparm.rules -> ../hdparm.rules
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 7117 Apr 11  2009 z60_xserver-xorg-input-wacom.rules

-- /sys/:
/sys/dev
/sys/devices/LNXSYSTM:00/LNXPWRBN:00/input/input3/event3/dev
/sys/devices/LNXSYSTM:00/device:00/PNP0C0C:00/input/input4/event4/dev
/sys/devices/pci0000:00/0000:00:02.0/usb2/2-0:1.0/usb_endpoint/usbdev2.1_ep81/dev
/sys/devices/pci0000:00/0000:00:02.0/usb2/2-2/2-2:1.0/0003:046D:C03E.0001/hidraw/hidraw0/dev
/sys/devices/pci0000:00/0000:00:02.0/usb2/2-2/2-2:1.0/input/input2/event2/dev
/sys/devices/pci0000:00/0000:00:02.0/usb2/2-2/2-2:1.0/input/input2/mouse1/dev
/sys/devices/pci0000:00/0000:00:02.0/usb2/2-2/2-2:1.0/usb_endpoint/usbdev2.2_ep81/dev
/sys/devices/pci0000:00/0000:00:02.0/usb2/2-2/dev
/sys/devices/pci0000:00/0000:00:02.0/usb2/2-2/usb_device/usbdev2.2/dev
/sys/devices/pci0000:00/0000:00:02.0/usb2/2-2/usb_endpoint/usbdev2.2_ep00/dev
/sys/devices/pci0000:00/0000:00:02.0/usb2/dev
/sys/devices/pci0000:00/0000:00:02.0/usb2/usb_device/usbdev2.1/dev
/sys/devices/pci0000:00/0000:00:02.0/usb2/usb_endpoint/usbdev2.1_ep00/dev
/sys/devices/pci0000:00/0000:00:02.0/usbmon/usbmon2/dev
/sys/devices/pci0000:00/0000:00:02.1/usb1/1-0:1.0/usb_endpoint/usbdev1.1_ep81/dev
/sys/devices/pci0000:00/0000:00:02.1/usb1/dev
/sys/devices/pci0000:00/0000:00:02.1/usb1/usb_device/usbdev1.1/dev
/sys/devices/pci0000:00/0000:00:02.1/usb1/usb_endpoint/usbdev1.1_ep00/dev
/sys/devices/pci0000:00/0000:00:02.1/usbmon/usbmon1/dev
/sys/devices/pci0000:00/0000:00:04.0/ide0/0.1/block/hdb/dev
/sys/devices/pci0000:00/0000:00:05.1/host6/target6:0:0/6:0:0:0/block/sda/dev
/sys/devices/pci0000:00/0000:00:05.1/host6/target6:0:0/6:0:0:0/block/sda/sda1/dev
/sys/devices/pci0000:00/0000:00:05.1/host6/target6:0:0/6:0:0:0/block/sda/sda2/dev
/sys/devices/pci0000:00/0000:00:05.1/host6/target6:0:0/6:0:0:0/block/sda/sda5/dev
/sys/devices/pci0000:00/0000:00:05.1/host6/target6:0:0/6:0:0:0/block/sda/sda6/dev
/sys/devices/pci0000:00/0000:00:05.1/host6/target6:0:0/6:0:0:0/bsg/6:0:0:0/dev
/sys/devices/pci0000:00/0000:00:05.1/host7/target7:0:0/7:0:0:0/block/sdb/dev
/sys/devices/pci0000:00/0000:00:05.1/host7/target7:0:0/7:0:0:0/block/sdb/sdb1/dev
/sys/devices/pci0000:00/0000:00:05.1/host7/target7:0:0/7:0:0:0/bsg/7:0:0:0/dev
/sys/devices/pci0000:00/0000:00:05.2/host9/target9:0:0/9:0:0:0/block/sdc/dev
/sys/devices/pci0000:00/0000:00:05.2/host9/target9:0:0/9:0:0:0/bsg/9:0:0:0/dev
/sys/devices/pci0000:00/0000:00:06.0/0000:01:0b.0/fw0/dev
/sys/devices/pci0000:00/0000:00:06.1/input/input6/event6/dev
/sys/devices/pci0000:00/0000:00:06.1/sound/card1/adsp1/dev
/sys/devices/pci0000:00/0000:00:06.1/sound/card1/audio1/dev
/sys/devices/pci0000:00/0000:00:06.1/sound/card1/controlC1/dev
/sys/devices/pci0000:00/0000:00:06.1/sound/card1/dsp1/dev
/sys/devices/pci0000:00/0000:00:06.1/sound/card1/hwC1D0/dev
/sys/devices/pci0000:00/0000:00:06.1/sound/card1/mixer1/dev
/sys/devices/pci0000:00/0000:00:06.1/sound/card1/pcmC1D0c/dev
/sys/devices/pci0000:00/0000:00:06.1/sound/card1/pcmC1D0p/dev
/sys/devices/pci0000:00/0000:00:06.1/sound/card1/pcmC1D1c/dev
/sys/devices/pci0000:00/0000:00:06.1/sound/card1/pcmC1D1p/dev
/sys/devices/platform/floppy.0/block/fd0/dev
/sys/devices/platform/i8042/serio0/input/input1/event1/dev
/sys/devices/platform/pcspkr/input/input5/event5/dev
/sys/devices/platform/pcspkr/sound/card0/audio/dev
/sys/devices/platform/pcspkr/sound/card0/controlC0/dev
/sys/devices/platform/pcspkr/sound/card0/dsp/dev
/sys/devices/platform/pcspkr/sound/card0/mixer/dev
/sys/devices/platform/pcspkr/sound/card0/pcmC0D0p/dev
/sys/devices/platform/serial8250/tty/ttyS1/dev
/sys/devices/platform/serial8250/tty/ttyS2/dev
/sys/devices/platform/serial8250/tty/ttyS3/dev
/sys/devices/pnp0/00:05/rtc/rtc0/dev
/sys/devices/pnp0/00:09/tty/ttyS0/dev
/sys/devices/virtual/block/loop0/dev
/sys/devices/virtual/block/loop1/dev
/sys/devices/virtual/block/loop2/dev
/sys/devices/virtual/block/loop3/dev
/sys/devices/virtual/block/loop4/dev
/sys/devices/virtual/block/loop5/dev
/sys/devices/virtual/block/loop6/dev
/sys/devices/virtual/block/loop7/dev
/sys/devices/virtual/block/ram0/dev
/sys/devices/virtual/block/ram1/dev
/sys/devices/virtual/block/ram10/dev
/sys/devices/virtual/block/ram11/dev
/sys/devices/virtual/block/ram12/dev
/sys/devices/virtual/block/ram13/dev
/sys/devices/virtual/block/ram14/dev
/sys/devices/virtual/block/ram15/dev
/sys/devices/virtual/block/ram2/dev
/sys/devices/virtual/block/ram3/dev
/sys/devices/virtual/block/ram4/dev
/sys/devices/virtual/block/ram5/dev
/sys/devices/virtual/block/ram6/dev
/sys/devices/virtual/block/ram7/dev
/sys/devices/virtual/block/ram8/dev
/sys/devices/virtual/block/ram9/dev
/sys/devices/virtual/input/input0/event0/dev
/sys/devices/virtual/input/input0/mouse0/dev
/sys/devices/virtual/input/mice/dev
/sys/devices/virtual/mem/full/dev
/sys/devices/virtual/mem/kmem/dev
/sys/devices/virtual/mem/kmsg/dev
/sys/devices/virtual/mem/mem/dev
/sys/devices/virtual/mem/null/dev
/sys/devices/virtual/mem/port/dev
/sys/devices/virtual/mem/random/dev
/sys/devices/virtual/mem/urandom/dev
/sys/devices/virtual/mem/zero/dev
/sys/devices/virtual/misc/cpu_dma_latency/dev
/sys/devices/virtual/misc/device-mapper/dev
/sys/devices/virtual/misc/fuse/dev
/sys/devices/virtual/misc/hpet/dev
/sys/devices/virtual/misc/mcelog/dev
/sys/devices/virtual/misc/network_latency/dev
/sys/devices/virtual/misc/network_throughput/dev
/sys/devices/virtual/misc/psaux/dev
/sys/devices/virtual/misc/snapshot/dev
/sys/devices/virtual/sound/timer/dev
/sys/devices/virtual/tty/console/dev
/sys/devices/virtual/tty/ptmx/dev
/sys/devices/virtual/tty/tty/dev
/sys/devices/virtual/tty/tty0/dev
/sys/devices/virtual/tty/tty1/dev
/sys/devices/virtual/tty/tty10/dev
/sys/devices/virtual/tty/tty11/dev
/sys/devices/virtual/tty/tty12/dev
/sys/devices/virtual/tty/tty13/dev
/sys/devices/virtual/tty/tty14/dev
/sys/devices/virtual/tty/tty15/dev
/sys/devices/virtual/tty/tty16/dev
/sys/devices/virtual/tty/tty17/dev
/sys/devices/virtual/tty/tty18/dev
/sys/devices/virtual/tty/tty19/dev
/sys/devices/virtual/tty/tty2/dev
/sys/devices/virtual/tty/tty20/dev
/sys/devices/virtual/tty/tty21/dev
/sys/devices/virtual/tty/tty22/dev
/sys/devices/virtual/tty/tty23/dev
/sys/devices/virtual/tty/tty24/dev
/sys/devices/virtual/tty/tty25/dev
/sys/devices/virtual/tty/tty26/dev
/sys/devices/virtual/tty/tty27/dev
/sys/devices/virtual/tty/tty28/dev
/sys/devices/virtual/tty/tty29/dev
/sys/devices/virtual/tty/tty3/dev
/sys/devices/virtual/tty/tty30/dev
/sys/devices/virtual/tty/tty31/dev
/sys/devices/virtual/tty/tty32/dev
/sys/devices/virtual/tty/tty33/dev
/sys/devices/virtual/tty/tty34/dev
/sys/devices/virtual/tty/tty35/dev
/sys/devices/virtual/tty/tty36/dev
/sys/devices/virtual/tty/tty37/dev
/sys/devices/virtual/tty/tty38/dev
/sys/devices/virtual/tty/tty39/dev
/sys/devices/virtual/tty/tty4/dev
/sys/devices/virtual/tty/tty40/dev
/sys/devices/virtual/tty/tty41/dev
/sys/devices/virtual/tty/tty42/dev
/sys/devices/virtual/tty/tty43/dev
/sys/devices/virtual/tty/tty44/dev
/sys/devices/virtual/tty/tty45/dev
/sys/devices/virtual/tty/tty46/dev
/sys/devices/virtual/tty/tty47/dev
/sys/devices/virtual/tty/tty48/dev
/sys/devices/virtual/tty/tty49/dev
/sys/devices/virtual/tty/tty5/dev
/sys/devices/virtual/tty/tty50/dev
/sys/devices/virtual/tty/tty51/dev
/sys/devices/virtual/tty/tty52/dev
/sys/devices/virtual/tty/tty53/dev
/sys/devices/virtual/tty/tty54/dev
/sys/devices/virtual/tty/tty55/dev
/sys/devices/virtual/tty/tty56/dev
/sys/devices/virtual/tty/tty57/dev
/sys/devices/virtual/tty/tty58/dev
/sys/devices/virtual/tty/tty59/dev
/sys/devices/virtual/tty/tty6/dev
/sys/devices/virtual/tty/tty60/dev
/sys/devices/virtual/tty/tty61/dev
/sys/devices/virtual/tty/tty62/dev
/sys/devices/virtual/tty/tty63/dev
/sys/devices/virtual/tty/tty7/dev
/sys/devices/virtual/tty/tty8/dev
/sys/devices/virtual/tty/tty9/dev
/sys/devices/virtual/usbmon/usbmon0/dev
/sys/devices/virtual/vc/vcs/dev
/sys/devices/virtual/vc/vcs1/dev
/sys/devices/virtual/vc/vcs2/dev
/sys/devices/virtual/vc/vcs3/dev
/sys/devices/virtual/vc/vcs4/dev
/sys/devices/virtual/vc/vcs5/dev
/sys/devices/virtual/vc/vcs6/dev
/sys/devices/virtual/vc/vcsa/dev
/sys/devices/virtual/vc/vcsa1/dev
/sys/devices/virtual/vc/vcsa2/dev
/sys/devices/virtual/vc/vcsa3/dev
/sys/devices/virtual/vc/vcsa4/dev
/sys/devices/virtual/vc/vcsa5/dev
/sys/devices/virtual/vc/vcsa6/dev

-- Kernel configuration:
 isapnp_init not present.


-- System Information:
Debian Release: squeeze/sid
  APT prefers testing
  APT policy: (500, 'testing')
Architecture: amd64 (x86_64)

Kernel: Linux 2.6.30-2-amd64 (SMP w/2 CPU cores)
Locale: LANG=it_IT.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=it_IT.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8)
Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/bash

Versions of packages udev depends on:
ii  debconf [debconf-2.0]        1.5.28      Debian configuration management sy
ii  libc6                        2.10.2-2    GNU C Library: Shared libraries
ii  libselinux1                  2.0.89-4    SELinux runtime shared libraries
ii  libusb-0.1-4                 2:0.1.12-13 userspace USB programming library
ii  lsb-base                     3.2-23      Linux Standard Base 3.2 init scrip
ii  util-linux                   2.16.1-4    Miscellaneous system utilities

Versions of packages udev recommends:
ii  pciutils                      1:3.1.4-4  Linux PCI Utilities
ii  usbutils                      0.86-2     Linux USB utilities

udev suggests no packages.

-- debconf information:
  udev/new_kernel_needed: false
  udev/reboot_needed:






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