partman could not stat /dev/mapper/pdc_fafdf2
| Affects | Status | Importance | Assigned to | Milestone | |
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| partman-auto-raid (Ubuntu) |
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Bug Description
This is as close to my situation as I can find in the bug reports so I figure I'll add some stuff here, please tell me if I should do otherwise.
10.04, both the 32-bit desktop & amd-64-bit server variants.
My motherboard supports RAID 0 & 1 natively (I think it's an ATI chipset) and I wanted to mirror two 500 GB hard drives. The installer sees the RAID device, uses the /dev/mapper nomenclature to address it, even lets me partition it (3 primary partitions, if it matters) but everything falls on its face thereon out...
<GRIPE> These Microsofty error messages are irritating - merely telling me something failed but with very little information about the root cause, and it seems more difficult than it needs to be to to detrmine exactly where the problem(s) lie </GRIPE>
The 32-bit version died saying something to the effect of being unable to create a file system in a partition. When I went to a console and manually looked at & formatted the partitions, then backstepped in the GUI and told it to not format the partitions (which it could see just fine) the gui ended up telling me it needed to erase previously-
Looking at the logs, it seems something called partman cannot locate or access the device files (which ls, fdisk & parted can see just fine).
I forget exactly the symptoms but the amd64-bit version fails, too, although I don't recall if it can even see the RAID device to partition it.
At some point during my attempts, mkfs.ext[4|3] stopped being able to see the target (I think this was the 64-bit version but am not sure).
I then tried the 32-bit variant using just a single 500 GB SATA drive, the gui thing didn't show it even being available (this may have been where I also encountered the mkfs problems in a shell).
Sorry for the vagueness, I didn't take real good notes and was particularly irritated at how difficult it was to find useful information as to what is going on (put me in a bad mood).
