I've just seen this infinite loop in 16.04 with kernel 4.15. For me, this was just a leftover because I was transitioning from software raid to btrfs raid. Therefore, I had commented out the old software raid definition in /etc/mdadm/mdadm.conf. Which in turn brought me to the loop problem.
Can't the boot process just continue as long as long as no raid is defined in mdadm.conf? In any case, there should not be a reason to loop here because it is unlikely that mdadm.conf changes during boot. -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1335642 Title: mdadm runs into infinite loop and prevents initrd/initramfs phase to finish on boot To manage notifications about this bug go to: https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/mdadm/+bug/1335642/+subscriptions -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list ubuntu-bugs@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs
