Bug#499643: Bug #499643, Segmentation fault when attempting re-assembly of a failed RAID5 via "mdadm -v -A --run --force"

Hello I'm pulling a me-too, except that my experience was real world rather than academic. I just spent all night dealing with a RAID5 that lost two members. I had to bring in an older version of mdadm to bring up the array with --force, after my current version was segfaulting in a simila

Bug#499643: Segmentation fault when attempting re-assembly of a failed RAID5 via "mdadm -v -A --run --force"

Package: mdadm Version: 2.6.7-3.1 Severity: normal The system is a clean 1-day old installation of Lenny. Doing tests of RAID re-assembly, by failing devices and having mdadm rebuild them. Had manually failed 2 devices on a 5-drive RAID5, causing it to stop. All attempts at forced re-assembly end