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

[Alexander Kurtz]

Am Donnerstag, den 26.08.2010, 11:07 +0200 schrieb Toni Mueller: 
> After several (5?) minutes where the machine didn't do anything I was
> able to see, the screen was suddenly flushed with a large number of
> messages like:
> 
>   /sys/devices/virtual/block/md0 (10715)
>   /sys/devices/virtual/block/md1 (10716)
>   /sys/devices/virtual/block/md0 (10717)
>   /sys/devices/virtual/block/md1 (10718)
>   /sys/devices/virtual/block/md0 (10719)
>   /sys/devices/virtual/block/md1 (10720)
>   /sys/devices/virtual/block/md0 (10721)
> Unlocking the disk /dev/md1 (md1_crypt)
> Enter the passphrase:

Am Samstag, den 28.08.2010, 23:58 +0200 schrieb Andreas v. Heydwolff:
> Then I tried to boot, GRUB came up, the mds were started, and
> 
>   /sys/devices/virtual/block/md0 (numbers in the high 5000s here)
> 
> scrolled by for all 3 arrays. The passphrase was entered and the machine
> just remained stuck with the single server case hdd activity light on all the 
> time, both with a regular boot and a rescue mode boot, so I never got
> past the passphrase promt.

Am Sonntag, den 29.08.2010, 02:35 +0200 schrieb Agustin Martin:
> May this be related to #583917,  mdadm: long delay (6-200 minutes)
> during boot (root device detection) after upgrade on RAID/LVM/LUKS
> setup?

Am Samstag, den 04.09.2010, 04:22 +0100 schrieb 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.


This *might* indeed be a duplicate of #594418:
http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=594418

Best regards

Alexander Kurtz 
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