no notification that one of the disks has been disconnected in a raid 1 configurtion

[Patrick Wright]

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TEST CASE:

Follow the (rather lengthy):

http://testcases.qa.ubuntu.com/Install/ServerRAID1

At step 21, this bug causes there to be no notification of degraded arrays. Sometimes this manifests only at step 24 (there is a small race between udev and mdadm, I think, that causes this to be unreliable).

When the package is fixed, the degraded status is always displayed at the right times.

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Binary package hint: mdadm

followed test steps for SR1I-001 from testcases.qa.ubuntu.com/Install/ServerRAID1
Step 21. booting from cold-degraded array
Once the disk is disconnected and system is powered on there is no warning before or after the user logs in

ProblemType: Bug
DistroRelease: Ubuntu 11.04
Package: mdadm 3.1.4-1+8efb9d1ubuntu4
ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 2.6.38-8.42-generic-pae 2.6.38.2
Uname: Linux 2.6.38-8-generic-pae i686
Architecture: i386
Date: Fri Apr 15 09:38:09 2011
InstallationMedia: Ubuntu-Server 11.04 "Natty Narwhal" - Beta i386 (20110413)
Lsusb:
 Bus 001 Device 002: ID 80ee:0021
 Bus 001 Device 001: ID 1d6b:0001 Linux Foundation 1.1 root hub
MDadmExamine.dev.sda: Error: command ['/sbin/mdadm', '-E', '/dev/sda'] failed with exit code 1: mdadm: cannot open /dev/sda: Permission denied
MDadmExamine.dev.sda1: Error: command ['/sbin/mdadm', '-E', '/dev/sda1'] failed with exit code 1: mdadm: cannot open /dev/sda1: Permission denied
MDadmExamine.dev.sda2: Error: command ['/sbin/mdadm', '-E', '/dev/sda2'] failed with exit code 1: mdadm: cannot open /dev/sda2: Permission denied
MDadmExamine.dev.sda5: Error: command ['/sbin/mdadm', '-E', '/dev/sda5'] failed with exit code 1: mdadm: cannot open /dev/sda5: Permission denied
MDadmExamine.dev.sdb: Error: command ['/sbin/mdadm', '-E', '/dev/sdb'] failed with exit code 1: mdadm: cannot open /dev/sdb: Permission denied
MDadmExamine.dev.sdb1: Error: command ['/sbin/mdadm', '-E', '/dev/sdb1'] failed with exit code 1: mdadm: cannot open /dev/sdb1: Permission denied
MDadmExamine.dev.sdb2: Error: command ['/sbin/mdadm', '-E', '/dev/sdb2'] failed with exit code 1: mdadm: cannot open /dev/sdb2: Permission denied
MDadmExamine.dev.sdb5: Error: command ['/sbin/mdadm', '-E', '/dev/sdb5'] failed with exit code 1: mdadm: cannot open /dev/sdb5: Permission denied
MachineType: innotek GmbH VirtualBox
ProcEnviron:
 LANG=en_US.UTF-8
 SHELL=/bin/bash
ProcKernelCmdLine: BOOT_IMAGE=/boot/vmlinuz-2.6.38-8-generic-pae root=UUID=dac5f344-e6fa-457d-8c14-ff55eabd699e ro quiet
SourcePackage: mdadm
UpgradeStatus: No upgrade log present (probably fresh install)
dmi.bios.date: 12/01/2006
dmi.bios.vendor: innotek GmbH
dmi.bios.version: VirtualBox
dmi.modalias: dmi:bvninnotekGmbH:bvrVirtualBox:bd12/01/2006:svninnotekGmbH:pnVirtualBox:pvr1.2:
dmi.product.name: VirtualBox
dmi.product.version: 1.2
dmi.sys.vendor: innotek GmbH
etc.blkid.tab: Error: [Errno 2] No such file or directory: '/etc/blkid.tab'

[Patrick Wright (patrickmwright)]

need confirmation

[Clint Byrum (clint-fewbar)]

I just saw this during an iso test. Its not a release blocker, but definitely needs to be fixed in an SRU *soon*.

[Clint Byrum (clint-fewbar)]

The issue here is that mdadm 3.x does not set the return code unless --test is passed.

I've uploaded a fixed package that just adds --test to the command line for mdadm's scan during initrd. I am re-running the ISO tests now with the fixed package, but manually applying the patch and re-trying the affected steps produced a positive result.

[Martin Pitt (pitti)]

Accepted mdadm into natty-proposed, the package will build now and be available in a few hours. Please test and give feedback here. See https://wiki.ubuntu.com/Testing/EnableProposed for documentation how to enable and use -proposed. Thank you in advance!

[Patrick Wright (patrickmwright)]

I was able to replicate the bug with natty final release
After upgrading mdadm the fix it worked!

[Launchpad Janitor (janitor)]

This bug was fixed in the package mdadm - 3.1.4-1+8efb9d1ubuntu4.1

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mdadm (3.1.4-1+8efb9d1ubuntu4.1) natty-proposed; urgency=low

  * pass --test to mdadm to enable result codes for degraded arrays.
    (LP: #761971)
 -- Clint Byrum <email address hidden> Wed, 27 Apr 2011 15:05:14 -0700

[Martin Pitt (pitti)]

Copied to oneiric as well.