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Carlwill

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From: Orlando, FL

Registered: 2008-10-06

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Activating RAID Arrays = FAIL

While I was rebooting my Arch server today I happened to watch it run through it's whole song / dance during boot up. I saw that one of the lines failed in bright 'red' as it starts up...it was hard to miss.

::Activating RAID arrays = FAIL
::Mounting Root Read-only = DONE
::Checking Filesystems = BUSY
/dev/md0: clean, 55117/45539328 files, 20630896/182142944 blocks
/dev/sda1: clean, 31/250480 files, 36958/1000038 blocks

::Mounting Local Filesystem = DONE

Now the system quickly boots up quickly and beyond seeing the error, no other system issues come up. If you were not paying attention, you wouldn't even know there was a problem. RAID shows everything is up and up. The two drives are synced and persistent. Anyone know why I am seeing this error?

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lilsirecho

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Re: Activating RAID Arrays = FAIL

Because I can see it too!!!!

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Carlwill

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From: Orlando, FL

Registered: 2008-10-06

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Re: Activating RAID Arrays = FAIL

Because I can see it too!!!!

How is that helpful.

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algorythm

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Registered: 2009-07-17

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Re: Activating RAID Arrays = FAIL

Because I can see it too!!!!

LOL .

Well is your system up-to-date? Do you have missconfigured configs like rc.sysinit?

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Ultraman

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Registered: 2009-12-24

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Re: Activating RAID Arrays = FAIL

Before starting a topic, try searching: [mdadm] Activating RAID arrays believes to [FAIL]

This "fail" was introduced when upgrading mdadm from 2.6.x to 3.1.1.
It is a harmless bug in the script. mdadm is trying to assemble arrays that already are assembled on bootup.