I have this problem after doing an install from the alternative CD 11.10 so it'snot just isolated to the live CD.
mdadm may well have been removed for speed reasons, but then Disk Utility needs to fail gracefully and not as it does show that mdadm completed successfully. Please don't be fooled that everyone that might come across this can fix it, I have never done raid on Linux before and I am still learning, and struggling after 2 days (i.e. 2 days after first attempting to create an RAID array its still not functional). Issues like mdadm and Disk Utility not working nicely together, do indeed make me wish for the days when I used to do this in Windows with a huge amount of comparative ease. -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Desktop Packages, which is subscribed to gnome-disk-utility in Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/440831 Title: RAID creation fails due to absent package "mdadm" Status in “gnome-disk-utility” package in Ubuntu: Confirmed Bug description: Binary package hint: gnome-disk-utility I can't create a RAID0 Array because the package "mdadm" is not installed. This is the error that I get: Error starting job: Failed to execute child process "mdadm" (No such file or directory) There is no hint, what I should do then, this is not so good for the average user. Maybe PackageKit support could be a good solution. There could be an dialog that could help the user to install "mdadm". Another problem is that during the installation of mdamd, postfix was also installed which asks question that the average user can't understand. The last problem is that I had no permission to write something on may array that I had finally created. The only user that had access was root. I was able to change the permission, but I don't know if everybody is able to do so. I hope this information is helpful. Regards Achim ProblemType: Bug Architecture: amd64 Date: Fri Oct 2 21:04:45 2009 DistroRelease: Ubuntu 9.10 ExecutablePath: /usr/bin/palimpsest Package: gnome-disk-utility 2.28.0-0ubuntu2 ProcEnviron: LANG=de_DE.UTF-8 SHELL=/bin/bash ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 2.6.31-11.36-generic SourcePackage: gnome-disk-utility Uname: Linux 2.6.31-11-generic x86_64 To manage notifications about this bug go to: https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/gnome-disk-utility/+bug/440831/+subscriptions -- Mailing list: https://launchpad.net/~desktop-packages Post to : [email protected] Unsubscribe : https://launchpad.net/~desktop-packages More help : https://help.launchpad.net/ListHelp
