Bug#594472: grub-pc: scary messages and very long boot time after upgrade

[Darren]

upgrading to mdadm 3.1.4-1+8efb9d1 from sid solved my boot problems.
That is for both, the VM I set up for testing, as well as my base PC.
Both are booting fine now.

Please note
   * my system uses grub grub2/1.98+20100804-4 from sid, so your
mileage may vary ;)
   * the normal install did not update all kernels initramfs and I had
to initiate a separate update-initiramfs to get them all in line.
(details see log below)



root at mypc:/var/log/gnunetd# apt-get install mdadm
Reading package lists... Done
Building dependency tree
Reading state information... Done
The following packages will be upgraded:
  mdadm
1 upgraded, 0 newly installed, 0 to remove and 194 not upgraded.
Need to get 464kB of archives.
After this operation, 32.8kB of additional disk space will be used.
Get: 1 http://ftp3.nrc.ca/debian/ sid/main mdadm amd64 3.1.4-1+8efb9d1 [464kB]
Fetched 464kB in 2s (223kB/s)
Reading changelogs... Done
Preconfiguring packages ...
(Reading database ... 177376 files and directories currently installed.)
Preparing to replace mdadm 3.1.1-1 (using
.../mdadm_3.1.4-1+8efb9d1_amd64.deb) ...
Stopping MD monitoring service: mdadm --monitor.
Unpacking replacement mdadm ...
Processing triggers for doc-base ...
Processing 6 changed doc-base file(s)...
Registering documents with scrollkeeper...
Processing triggers for man-db ...
Setting up mdadm (3.1.4-1+8efb9d1) ...
Installing new version of config file /etc/logcheck/ignore.d.server/mdadm ...
Installing new version of config file /etc/cron.d/mdadm ...
Generating array device nodes... done.
update-initramfs: deferring update (trigger activated)
Starting MD monitoring service: mdadm --monitor.
Generating udev events for MD arrays...done.
Processing triggers for initramfs-tools ...
update-initramfs: Generating /boot/initrd.img-2.6.32-trunk-amd64

root at mypc:/var/log/gnunetd# update-initramfs -k all -u
update-initramfs: Generating /boot/initrd.img-2.6.32-trunk-amd64
update-initramfs: Generating /boot/initrd.img-2.6.32-5-amd64