After the update to 9.04 I had the same problems but could build the md devices in the emergency shell and resumed booting with:
# mdadm --assemble --scan;exit Today I found the fix. I removed the duplicated definitions of the arrays in mdadm.conf with the output of: # mdadm --detail --scan this added the information for the metadata - 0.90 if you are wondering The other change that I made was editing the DEVICE line from: DEVICE partitions to: DEVICE /dev/sda[1-4] /dev/sdb[1-4] The last step was to rebuild the initrd with the new config file. # update-initramfs after that the system of my grandparents is booting again without the need of them entering a cryptic line on every start up. Some questions that still remain: 1. Why does the RAID brake on every ubuntu version upgrade since about 3 years? 2. Why the mdadm.conf contained duplicated array and device lines? 3. Why can't mdadm report a broken configuration in a way so that I don't need a week or two too fix the problem? Regards, Dominik -- [gutsy] mdadm, initramfs missing ARRAY lines https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/136252 You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list [email protected] https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs
