Hey, this would make a good Dilbert.
Dilbert: Because Wally couldn't fix that critical bug, the customer gave up
after a few years and switched to a competitor's product.
PHB: Mark the bug as fixed; we've got targets to meet.
Ian
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mdadm cannot assemble array as cannot open drive with O_EXCL
I'm the original reporter but I haven't personally experienced this bug
since completely switching hardware and moving to Hardy, so I can't
provide any more information. Sorry about that, but after six years
things were bound to have changed.
I guess people need to open their own bugs, and I'm not
No idea, I'm afraid. It went away for me some time ago when I upgraded
Ubuntu, but clearly it's still deep down in there and keeps leaping up
and biting someone.
Sadly, when it does occur, no-one is really able to keep trying things
to localise the issue - they just want their raid array back and
This bug is now over three years old so has been ignored for many
versions of Ubuntu. Yes, there's a work-around, but it's a pretty nasty
thing to have to do on a production server.
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mdadm cannot assemble array as cannot open drive with O_EXCL
https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/27037
You received
What have you got in /etc/mdadm/mdadm.conf? Is the ARRAY definition for
the old array in there? If so, comment it out and reboot (or unmount
everything and restart mdadm, but reboot is maybe easier!)
It might also be worth removing the entry that creates the array on your
loop devices and assembl
I had exactly this problem this weekend when building some new machines.
They have Asus A8N VM CSM motherboards in Antec Aria cases. The Aria has
front panel memory card slots connected to an internal USB connector.
With the memory card slots connected, the Dapper live CD would hang at
"Mounting r
