Bug#381007: mdadm: Fails to upgrade with devfsd-style udev

2006-08-02 Thread Bas Wijnen
On Wed, Aug 02, 2006 at 03:47:07PM +0100, martin f krafft wrote: > Could you please run > > rm /dev/md? > update-initramfs -t -u > > and confirm that this fixes it? It does indeed. > If it does, then this is an upstream problem I need to work around! Or get upstream to fix it. ;-) > Any

Bug#381007: mdadm: Fails to upgrade with devfsd-style udev

2006-08-02 Thread Bas Wijnen
On Wed, Aug 02, 2006 at 02:57:22PM +0100, martin f krafft wrote: > Can you please try (cut&paste into the shell should work): > > apt-get install -d mdadm=2.5.2-9 > dpkg --unpack /var/cache/apt/archives/mdadm_2.5.2-9_*.deb > wget -O /tmp/mdadm.config http://madduck.net/~madduck/scratch/mdadm

Bug#381007: mdadm: Fails to upgrade with devfsd-style udev

2006-08-02 Thread martin f krafft
also sprach Bas Wijnen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [2006.08.02.1523 +0100]: > Here's the output. It seems something went wrong after all, even though > there's no error message. This doesn't sound like it's good: > I: mdadm: no RAID devices selected for initrd initialisation. > I: mdadm: not including RA

Bug#381007: mdadm: Fails to upgrade with devfsd-style udev

2006-08-02 Thread martin f krafft
Can you please try (cut&paste into the shell should work): apt-get install -d mdadm=2.5.2-9 dpkg --unpack /var/cache/apt/archives/mdadm_2.5.2-9_*.deb wget -O /tmp/mdadm.config http://madduck.net/~madduck/scratch/mdadm.config echo -e '887ce8e8e8e5dd261216774847b6866fd3e2423f /tmp/mdadm.con

Bug#381007: mdadm: Fails to upgrade with devfsd-style udev

2006-08-02 Thread martin f krafft
Does /dev/md_d0 exist on your system, and does mdadm --detail /dev/md_d0 || echo ERROR return something useful, or does it result in ERROR? -- Please do not send copies of list mail to me; I read the list! .''`. martin f. krafft <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> : :' :proud Debian developer and

Bug#381007: mdadm: Fails to upgrade with devfsd-style udev

2006-08-02 Thread martin f krafft
also sprach Bas Wijnen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [2006.08.02.1116 +0100]: > Some testing shows that I did get further, it is now actually > running the postinst (and failing that) instead of the > preconfigure. could you run sed -i -e '1s,$,x,' /var/lib/dpkg/info/mdadm.postinst and rerun dpkg-reconf

Bug#381007: mdadm: Fails to upgrade with devfsd-style udev

2006-08-02 Thread martin f krafft
also sprach Bas Wijnen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [2006.08.02.1206 +0100]: > On my system it shouldn't, but it seems fragile to need a name > that you recognised when the script was written for things to work > (assuming that that isn't really needed). Yes, I am working on that right now. -- Please do

Bug#381007: mdadm: Fails to upgrade with devfsd-style udev

2006-08-02 Thread martin f krafft
also sprach Bas Wijnen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [2006.08.02.1051 +0100]: > > The loop should stay endless, IMHO, to ensure that the user passes > > a proper device string (or 'all' or 'none'). > > The loop being endless if the user actually gets to answer the quesion is > fine. But my debconf priority

Bug#381007: mdadm: Fails to upgrade with devfsd-style udev

2006-08-02 Thread Bas Wijnen
On Wed, Aug 02, 2006 at 11:44:08AM +0100, martin f krafft wrote: > also sprach Bas Wijnen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [2006.08.02.1051 +0100]: > > > The loop should stay endless, IMHO, to ensure that the user passes > > > a proper device string (or 'all' or 'none'). > > > > The loop being endless if the u

Bug#381007: mdadm: Fails to upgrade with devfsd-style udev

2006-08-02 Thread Bas Wijnen
On Wed, Aug 02, 2006 at 11:51:51AM +0200, Bas Wijnen wrote: > On Tue, Aug 01, 2006 at 04:19:34PM +0100, martin f krafft wrote: > > also sprach Bas Wijnen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [2006.08.01.1322 +0100]: > > > This, plus the while true, which perhaps should be > > > while [ $ERROR -eq 0 ], leads to the

Bug#381007: mdadm: Fails to upgrade with devfsd-style udev

2006-08-02 Thread Bas Wijnen
On Tue, Aug 01, 2006 at 04:19:34PM +0100, martin f krafft wrote: > also sprach Bas Wijnen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [2006.08.01.1322 +0100]: > > This, plus the while true, which perhaps should be > > while [ $ERROR -eq 0 ], leads to the endless loop. > > The loop should stay endless, IMHO, to ensure tha

Bug#381007: mdadm: Fails to upgrade with devfsd-style udev

2006-08-01 Thread martin f krafft
tags 381007 + confirmed pending thanks also sprach Bas Wijnen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [2006.08.01.1322 +0100]: > Anyway, the problem is that during preconfigure, the script hangs while > continuously saying "E: unrecognised device string: /dev/md/0" > Looking at the script, the problem is that this ma

Bug#381007: mdadm: Fails to upgrade with devfsd-style udev

2006-08-01 Thread Bas Wijnen
Package: mdadm Version: 2.5.2-7 Severity: grave Justification: renders package unusable Ok, not quite unusable, but unupgradable. Which I suppose may have security concequences as well. Anyway, the problem is that during preconfigure, the script hangs while continuously saying "E: unrecognised d