Hi, First of all, I think this bug is a dupe of #496334.
Second, I ran into to this issue my self with mdadm in Lenny on a raid5-array. I fixed it by apply the patch[1] from Chris Webb[2]. After this patch was applied, it was no problem to do --assemble --force without segmentation fault. [1] http://neil.brown.name/git?p=mdadm;a=commitdiff;h=60b435db5a7b085ad1204168879037bf14ebd6d1 [2] http://marc.info/?l=linux-raid&m=121381784820652&w=2 Best Regards, /LM -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]