There's apparently a race condition, and it appears to have been in (and still is, as of 12.04 LTS) deep in Ubuntu for many versions. It just bit me tonight...and for the last time. Had similar insurmountable problems with 10.04 LTS, 6.06 LTS, too. I guess it's more important for the Ubu coders to race around doing cloud coding and changing tectonic parts (like Upstart) that really shouldn't be screwed with, eh? My only solution was to revert to Debian 6.0.5. Ubuntu, in my now long suffering experience, is to Debian as Fedora is to RedHat. Beware.
https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/mdadm/+bug/872220?comments=all -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/573477 Title: Mdadm array fails to assemble on boot. To manage notifications about this bug go to: https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/mdadm/+bug/573477/+subscriptions -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list ubuntu-bugs@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs