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PostPosted: Thu Nov 29, 2012 8:55 am    Post subject: mdmon not being activated on new kernels Reply with quote

Anyone know why I can't get mdmon to activate on a kernel after gentoo-sources-3.6.2?

For example if I use genkernel to make a kernel for gentoo-sources-3.6.8 the root file system mounts root only.

And so I have to do the following when it boots as it is read only:

mdmon /dev/md(N+1)
mount -o remount,rw /

After doing that it is read and write. I need this to happen at boot.

I have tried several different kernels, and versions of genkernel.

Kind of at a loss...

Cheers.

It is basically this problem: https://bbs.archlinux.org/viewtopic.php?id=137058 but on Gentoo not Arch.

Thanks
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PostPosted: Thu Nov 29, 2012 9:26 am    Post subject: Reply with quote

what sb metadata are you using?
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PostPosted: Thu Nov 29, 2012 8:43 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

ARRAY /dev/md/imsm0 metadata=imsm

Code:

# cat /proc/mdstat
Personalities : [raid1]
md126 : active raid1 sda[1] sdb[0]
      625129472 blocks super external:/md127/0 [2/2] [UU]

md127 : inactive sdb[1](S) sda[0](S)
      4520 blocks super external:imsm

unused devices: <none>

# mdadm --detail /dev/md126
/dev/md126:
      Container : /dev/md/imsm0, member 0
     Raid Level : raid1
     Array Size : 625129472 (596.17 GiB 640.13 GB)
  Used Dev Size : 625129604 (596.17 GiB 640.13 GB)
   Raid Devices : 2
  Total Devices : 2

          State : clean
 Active Devices : 2
Working Devices : 2
 Failed Devices : 0
  Spare Devices : 0


           UUID : d60b505d:ae5bf6a0:096ba81d:583a149a
    Number   Major   Minor   RaidDevice State
       1       8        0        0      active sync   /dev/sda
       0       8       16        1      active sync   /dev/sdb

# mdadm -D --scan
ARRAY /dev/md/imsm0 metadata=imsm UUID=bed903e1:10d63c86:5a92bab0:380e8b9a
ARRAY /dev/md/boron_0 container=/dev/md/imsm0 member=0 UUID=d60b505d:ae5bf6a0:096ba81d:583a149a
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PostPosted: Thu Nov 29, 2012 9:04 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

sorry, not idea what that means, hope you'll solve it.
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PostPosted: Thu Nov 29, 2012 11:22 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

It's a imsm (Intel) fakeraid.

What's your /etc/genkernel.conf look like? What's the kernel config that genkernel look like? Maybe post them to pastebin or similar.

I'm on 3.4.9 (or newer, I think I upgraded...) and I have zero issues. I always configure my kernel manually, even when using genkernel.

I can't remember now, but genkernel backs up kernel configs somewhere (maybe in /etc somewhere?) I can't look now, but if you find it post it.
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PostPosted: Fri Nov 30, 2012 2:26 am    Post subject: Reply with quote

Yup, it is Intel but I haven't really had much of a problem up until now. Right now I am in the 3.6.2 kernel without an issue.

I configure my kernel manually as well using "make menuconfig" and just use genkernel to make the image files to boot up. The command I use for genkernel is:

Code:
genkernel --mdadm --kernel-config=/root/docs/config all


It may be worth noting I have never edited genkernel.conf

Kernel Config file:
http://pastebin.com/veGc9rkP

genkernel.conf file:
http://pastebin.com/v1PjEeXV

As an aside, from genkernel.conf I noted that is a recent change that coincided about the time this broke for me, though it could just be a coincidence.
Code:
# NOTE: Since genkernel 3.4.41 the version of
#   busybox, lvm, mdadm, .. have been moved to
#   /usr/share/genkernel/defaults/software.sh in order to
#   reduce the merging you have to do during etc-update.
#   You can still override these settings in here.


Here is when the last good kernel was built:
Code:
3.6.2-gentoo #1 SMP Mon Oct 15 21:34:49 EDT 2012


I learned of a manual fix from that Arch forum https://bbs.archlinux.org/viewtopic.php?id=137058. I can describe briefly what happens.

I boot into my new kernel and the raid is write protected, and "mount -o remount,rw /" does nothing. However if I type "mdmon /dev/md127" which is the raid container I can then use the "mount -o remount,rw /" command without issue.

So I suspect that it has something to do with that command not being entered into the boot image by genkernel.

Thanks!
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PostPosted: Mon Dec 03, 2012 8:35 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

What version of mdadm is genkernel using? Another user had a problem with it not being able to mount.

I pasted my genkernel.conf (which, at the time, used a newer mdadm than genkernel used) and he recompiled using it - the problem he had went away.

It may just be an old version of mdadm that's being used in the initrd.
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