Bug#947806: systemd doesn't like my raid, times out waiting for online partitions to come online, and can't continue boot

[Michael Biebl]

Control: retitle -1 dmraid volumes are not marked as active, resulting
in time out
Am 12.01.20 um 20:49 schrieb Joshua Hudson:
>>> Dec 31 08:27:23 nova dmraid-activate[554]: ERROR: Cannot retrieve RAID
> set information for isw_cfbejbfeib_Volume1
>> Have you further investigated those error messages?
> 
> I have now investigated and it's clearly spurious.
> 
> udev tries to run the following commands:
> 
> /sbin/dmraid-activate /dev/sda
> /sbin/dmraid-activate /dev/sdb
> /sbin/dmraid-activate sda
> /sbin/dmraid-activate sdb
> 
> The first two are correct and succeed. The second two are not correct
> and fail. The failure results in log spam.
> 
>> Have you tried with mdadm instead?
> 
> mdadm doesn't recognize the raid descriptor.
> 
>> udevadm info /dev/mapper/isw_cfbejbfeib_Volume14
> 
> output of this command for this device and all similar devices attached.
> 

Bad news is, that dmraid is basically dead and unmaintained since quite
a while. It's unfortunate, that mdadm doesn't have support for your RAID
controller.
Unfortunately I'm not sure if I can help you further at this point,
since I'm not familiar with dmraid.
It would probably be a good idea to reassign this bug report to dmraid.
But since dmraid upstream is dead and the last Debian upload is 3 years
old, I'm not sure you'll get any help there.

Maybe you can hack the /sbin/dmraid-activate script and call dmraid with
the -d switch to get a more verbose debug output. Maybe that provides
you with some clues.

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