Hi! I think I was facing the same problem the other day and I hope this is related.
The array holding the root partition wouldn't be assembled and stay read-only due to the fact that mdadm couldn't start mdmon, which was not included in the ramdisk. Writing a quick'n'dirty hook for initramfs-tools adding mdmon auto-magically fixed that. --8<----------- /etc/initramfs-tools/hooks/mdmon: #!/bin/sh . /usr/share/initramfs-tools/hook-functions copy_exec /sbin/mdmon --8<----------- I can't shutdown the system in a clean way though, it stops at some point (magic SysRq keys still work). I guess it's trying to unmount the root after mdmon has been killed with all the other processes? Best regards, Alex -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-bugs-dist-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org