<br><br><div><span class="gmail_quote">On 9/18/07, <b class="gmail_sendername"><a href="mailto:f-myth-users@media.mit.edu">f-myth-users@media.mit.edu</a></b> <<a href="mailto:f-myth-users@media.mit.edu">f-myth-users@media.mit.edu
</a>> wrote:</span><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;"> > Date: Tue, 18 Sep 2007 09:40:30 -0700<br> > From: "Steve MacLaren" <
<a href="mailto:scram69@gmail.com">scram69@gmail.com</a>><br><br> > It hadn't occurred to me, but now that I think about it, it's not all that<br> > far-fetched. I only saw the segfault message once; now that I can reliably
<br> > boot on the -15 kernel, it no longer shows up in the message log. I've gone<br> > ahead and ordered a new PSU. In the mean time, I'll try dd'ing each drive<br> > like you mentioned.<br>
<br>I'll be curious to know what the real problem turns out to be...<br>_______________________________________________</blockquote></div>Unfortunately, it wasn't the PSU. I replaced it with a brand new 550W (the old one was 500W) and saw the same thing,
i.e. the system reboots ~10 seconds after assembling the array.<br><br>If I physically unplug the power to one of the disks, mdadm.conf will assemble the remaining three disks into /dev/md0 on boot, but it won't mount. Here's what I see:
<br>steve@mediaserver:~$ sudo mdadm --detail /dev/md0<br>Password:<br>/dev/md0:<br> Version : 00.90.03<br> Creation Time : Mon May 7 21:31:55 2007<br> Raid Level : raid5<br> Device Size : 488383872 (465.76
GiB 500.11 GB)<br> Raid Devices : 4<br> Total Devices : 3<br>Preferred Minor : 0<br> Persistence : Superblock is persistent<br><br> Update Time : Wed Sep 12 15:58:54 2007<br> State : active, degraded, Not Started
<br> Active Devices : 3<br>Working Devices : 3<br> Failed Devices : 0<br> Spare Devices : 0<br><br> Layout : left-symmetric<br> Chunk Size : 128K<br><br> UUID : bc7a4d90:bd286a91:c109596b:d7e29b7e (local to host mediaserver)
<br> Events : 0.161<br><br> Number Major Minor RaidDevice State<br> 0 8 1 0 active sync /dev/sda1<br> 1 8 17 1 active sync /dev/sdb1<br> 2 0 0 2 removed
<br> 3 8 33 3 active sync /dev/sdc1<br><br>Then,<br>steve@mediaserver:~$ sudo mount -t xfs /dev/md0 /var/lib/mythtv<br>mount: /dev/md0: can't read superblock<br><br>