[fedora-list] Uptate: F11 x86_64 problems -- my disks are getting locked out
Rich Mahn
rich at lat.com
Wed Jul 8 14:24:52 UTC 2009
> > > On Mon, 06 Jul 2009 12:15:58 -0400
> > > Rich Mahn <rich at lat.com> wrote:
> > >
> > > I did a clean install of F11 x86_64 on a system that also has F10
> > > i686, F8, and others for a multi-boot situation. F11 is working
> > > fairly well except for one problem. I can't mount one of my disks.
> > snip
> > > Does anybody have any ideas what might be causing this and how to fix
> > > it?
> > >
> > Run blkid as root and make sure all your disks have the correct UUID
> > in /etc/fstab. You should be mounting them using UUID instead of
> > device name or label.
> Thanks for telling me about blkid. A real useful tool.
> > Here is a sample from my fstab:
> > #/dev/sda1
> > UUID=c6e94dd5-0cc3-4940-ac15-cb0ea856fd9a /boot ext3 defaults 1 2
> > #/dev/sda5
> > UUID=c94b5547-e098-45ca-8776-cce0e0cd6bac / ext4 defaults 1 1
> > Maybe you are already doing this.
> > Compare the F10 and F11 /etc/fstab for these disks. Make sure the
> > mount points are unique.
> > You could check for bugs like this in bugzilla.
> > http://bugzilla.redhat.com
> Since I mount these drives manually, it's not the fstab--at least
> I don't think it is.
> I suspect udev or something like that. The kernel recognizes
> the disks and paritions okay, but the device nodes for the partitions
> are never created. They can be forced by appropriate fdisk/hdparm
> or whatever that re-reads the label. But even then you can't mount
> them. You can, however, dumpe2fs, dd, and many other useful things.
> I think I started to run parted on the disk and aborted when I noticed
> I had used the wrong disk. In the current state, F10 is fine and F11
> isn't. I tried to install F11 i686 to see if it was an X86_64 problem,
> but now I can't install F11. It crashes when it tries to find disks.
> It looks like maybe it thinks the disk in question is part of a raid
> or something.
> I can get rid of the problem by zeroing the disk. I'm going to see if
> I can create the problem with parted.
I just found something that probably indicates the problem to those who
can understand these things. The command
udevadm info --query=env --name=/dev/sdc
has these extra line that a similar query on any other disk does not have:
ID_FS_USAGE=raid
ID_FS_TYPE=ddf_raid_member
ID_FS_VERSION=02.00.00
ID_FS_UUID=_$
ID_FS_UUID_ENC=\x20\x20\x20\x20\xfa\x24\x0c
Anybody have any idea what this means?
Rich
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