10.04 boot problems on nvraid mirror

[arathorn]

Binary package hint: grub2

From time to time grub2 hangs booting from my nvraid-mirror, telling me not to find /home. Rebooting the system mostly works to get the raid detected properly. Syslog says in case of not finding /home:

Jun 29 08:11:58 V840Off kernel: [ 18.666640] device-mapper: table: 252:0: mirror: Device lookup failure
Jun 29 08:11:58 V840Off kernel: [ 18.666644] device-mapper: ioctl: error adding target to table
Jun 29 08:11:58 V840Off kernel: [ 18.670400] device-mapper: table: 252:1: mirror: Device lookup failure
Jun 29 08:11:58 V840Off kernel: [ 18.670404] device-mapper: ioctl: error adding target to table
Jun 29 08:11:58 V840Off kernel: [ 18.682866] device-mapper: ioctl: device doesn't appear to be in the dev hash table.
Jun 29 08:11:58 V840Off kernel: [ 18.690434] device-mapper: ioctl: device doesn't appear to be in the dev hash table.

This problem occurs by 1 of 4 times I try to boot to my linux system. Booting Windows works everytime ...

ProblemType: Bug
DistroRelease: Ubuntu 10.04
Package: grub2 1.98-1ubuntu6
ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 2.6.32-22.36-generic 2.6.32.11+drm33.2
Uname: Linux 2.6.32-22-generic x86_64
NonfreeKernelModules: nvidia
Architecture: amd64
Date: Tue Jun 29 09:27:30 2010
InstallationMedia: Ubuntu 10.04 LTS "Lucid Lynx" - Release amd64 (20100429)
ProcEnviron:
 LANG=de_DE.utf8
 SHELL=/bin/bash
SourcePackage: grub2

[Phillip Susi (psusi)]

Those are not grub messages. It appears that your kernel is booting and failing to activate the raid array. Can you post the output of "sudo dmraid -n"?

[arathorn (joachim-s-c-h-u-n-k)]

I'm not working at this workstation at present, so I have limited
access, but today I was able to make a few tests:

Ubuntu 10.10 doesn't boot successfully. There comes the following error
message:

'error: invalid environment block'

After that boot-message is appearing:

'Ubuntu 10.10'

And then the above error message again:

'error: invalid environment block'

At this point Ubuntu hangs and nothing further happens ...

Am Mittwoch, den 16.05.2012, 18:30 +0000 schrieb Phillip Susi:
> Those are not grub messages. It appears that your kernel is booting and
> failing to activate the raid array. Can you post the output of "sudo
> dmraid -n"?
>
>
> ** Package changed: grub2 (Ubuntu) => dmraid (Ubuntu)
>
> ** Changed in: dmraid (Ubuntu)
> Status: New => Incomplete
>

[Phillip Susi (psusi)]

What happened to 10.04?

[arathorn (joachim-s-c-h-u-n-k)]

As far as I know it had been upgraded to 10.10 when 10.10 was
available ...

> What happened to 10.04?

[Phillip Susi (psusi)]

And since upgrading to 10.10 ( over a year ago? ) you have been unable to boot?

[arathorn (joachim-s-c-h-u-n-k)]

I only did the installation an bug-report. Since that only updates (and
one upgrade) was made. I don't know since when booting have been
impossible - but I know that nothing else happened to this
workstation ...

> And since upgrading to 10.10 ( over a year ago? ) you have been unable
> to boot?

[Snahrck (hansenclever)]

I'm experiencing the same problem on 12.04:
Linux cin-hfb 3.2.0-25-generic-pae #40-Ubuntu SMP Wed May 23 22:11:24 UTC 2012 i686 i686 i386 GNU/Linux

Here is the output of sudo dmraid -n:

could not open /var/lib/sudo/hans/2: ready only filesystem:
/dev/sdb (nvidia):
0x000 NVIDIA

0x008 size: 30
0x00c chksum: 2059287183
0x010 version: 100
0x012 unitNumber: 0
0x013 reserved: 0
0x014 capacity: 312581760
0x018 sectorSize: 512
0x01c productID: MIRROR 149.04G
0x02c productRevision: 100
0x030 unitFlags: 0
0x034 array->version: 6553668
0x038 array->signature[0]: 573718610
0x03c array->signature[1]: 287103240
0x040 array->signature[2]: 2095883518
0x044 array->signature[3]: 340025285
0x048 array->raidJobCode: 0
0x049 array->stripeWidth: 1
0x04a array->totalVolumes: 2
0x04b array->originalWidth: 1
0x04c array->raidLevel: 129
0x050 array->stripeBlockSize: 128
0x054 array->stripeBlockByteSize: 65536
0x058 array->stripeBlockPower: 7
0x05c array->stripeMask: 127
0x060 array->stripeSize: 128
0x064 array->stripeByteSize: 65536
0x068 array->raidJobMark 312581760
0x06c array->originalLevel 129
0x070 array->originalCapacity 312581760
0x074 array->flags 0x5

/dev/sda (nvidia):
0x000 NVIDIA

0x008 size: 30
0x00c chksum: 2059221647
0x010 version: 100
0x012 unitNumber: 1
0x013 reserved: 0
0x014 capacity: 312581760
0x018 sectorSize: 512
0x01c productID: MIRROR 149.04G
0x02c productRevision: 100
0x030 unitFlags: 0
0x034 array->version: 6553668
0x038 array->signature[0]: 573718610
0x03c array->signature[1]: 287103240
0x040 array->signature[2]: 2095883518
0x044 array->signature[3]: 340025285
0x048 array->raidJobCode: 0
0x049 array->stripeWidth: 1
0x04a array->totalVolumes: 2
0x04b array->originalWidth: 1
0x04c array->raidLevel: 129
0x050 array->stripeBlockSize: 128
0x054 array->stripeBlockByteSize: 65536
0x058 array->stripeBlockPower: 7
0x05c array->stripeMask: 127
0x060 array->stripeSize: 128
0x064 array->stripeByteSize: 65536
0x068 array->raidJobMark 312581760
0x06c array->originalLevel 129
0x070 array->originalCapacity 312581760
0x074 array->flags 0x5

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