Bug#1101925: Message on reboot: "systemd-shutdown: Failed to finalize MD devices, ignoring."

[Luca Boccassi]

Control: tags -1 wontfix
Control: close -1

On Wed, 02 Apr 2025 13:56:12 +0200 "Kaulkwappe"
<kaulkwappe.debian at prvy.eu> wrote:
> Package: systemdVersion: 252.36-1~deb12u1
> 
> On a fresh Debin 12 Bookworm installation I always get this error
message after rebooting the server with reboot. This is consistent over
multiple servers. The raid is mounted at /.
> 
> Do you have any idea what the reason for this is?

Your initrd scripts need to follow the storage daemon spec to clean up
gracefully:

https://systemd.io/ROOT_STORAGE_DAEMONS/

Otherwise you can just ignore these logs, as they are mostly harmless.