Disks utility fails to create RAID on default install
| Affects | Status | Importance | Assigned to | Milestone | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Linux Mint |
New
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Undecided
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Unassigned | ||
Bug Description
On a clean Min 17.2 install, if you go to "Disks", click the "tick" icon and select 2 (or any amount probably) drives. "Create RAID" button appears. Select RAID 1 (Mirror) and press Create. Press create again to confirm. It will fail saying
Error creating RAID array
Error creating RAID array: Error spawning command-line `mdadm --create /dev/md127 --run --level raid1 --raid-devices 2 "/dev/sdb" "/dev/sdc"': Failed to execute child process "mdadm" (No such file or directory) (g-exec-
This is obviously because a clean install does not include mdadm. The way it fails is however very cryptical. Any of the following should happen (from hardest to easiest solution):
a) It should install mdadm if it is missing
b) It should work out of the box, by having mdadm included.
c) It should have a clear error message saying "You need to install package mdadm to continue this operation"
100% reproduction rate on a clean install (unless of course you enabled RAID at installation time, this is assuming a default install on a single HDD)
