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From: Richard Broersma Jr <rabroersma@×××××.com>
To: gentoo-user@l.g.o
Subject: [gentoo-user] SparesMissing event on /dev/md4 --huh? what spare would that be?
Date: Fri, 30 Jun 2006 01:40:44
Message-Id: 20060630013418.52067.qmail@web31808.mail.mud.yahoo.com
1 I just preformed an emerge --update world after update grading to portage 2.1-r1. I noticed that
2 mdadm and some other packages were required to be updated to older versions. Since then, I am
3 getting false alarms from mdadm.
4
5 --- mdadm monitoring <root@server> wrote:
6
7 > From: mdadm monitoring <root@server>
8 > To: me@××××××××××××××.com
9 > Subject: SparesMissing event on /dev/md4:db_server01
10 > Date: Thu, 29 Jun 2006 17:31:07 -0700 (PDT)
11 >
12 > This is an automatically generated mail message from mdadm
13 > running on db_server01
14 >
15 > A SparesMissing event had been detected on md device /dev/md4.
16 >
17 > Faithfully yours, etc.
18 >
19 > P.S. The /proc/mdstat file current contains the following:
20 >
21 > Personalities : [raid1] [raid10] [multipath] [faulty]
22 > md1 : active raid1 hdc2[1] hda2[0]
23 > 61426432 blocks [2/2] [UU]
24 >
25 > md2 : active raid1 hdc3[1] hda3[0]
26 > 9765888 blocks [2/2] [UU]
27 >
28 > md3 : active raid1 hdc5[1] hda5[0]
29 > 4883136 blocks [2/2] [UU]
30 >
31 > md5 : active raid1 hdc6[1] hda6[0]
32 > 977152 blocks [2/2] [UU]
33 >
34 > md6 : active raid1 hdc7[1] hda7[0]
35 > 999296 blocks [2/2] [UU]
36 >
37 > md4 : active raid1 hdj1[0] hdg1[1]
38 > 293049600 blocks [2/2] [UU]
39 >
40 > md0 : active raid1 hdc1[1] hda1[0]
41 > 98176 blocks [2/2] [UU]
42 >
43 > unused devices: <none>
44 >
45 Portage 2.1-r1 (default-linux/x86/2005.1, gcc-3.4.6, glibc-2.3.6-r4, 2.6.16-gentoo-r7 i686)
46 =================================================================
47 System uname: 2.6.16-gentoo-r7 i686 AMD Athlon(tm) XP 1800+
48 Gentoo Base System version 1.6.15
49 ccache version 2.3 [disabled]
50 dev-lang/python: 2.4.3-r1
51 dev-python/pycrypto: 2.0.1-r5
52 dev-util/ccache: 2.3
53 dev-util/confcache: [Not Present]
54 sys-apps/sandbox: 1.2.17
55 sys-devel/autoconf: 2.13, 2.59-r7
56 sys-devel/automake: 1.4_p6, 1.5, 1.6.3, 1.7.9-r1, 1.8.5-r3, 1.9.6-r2
57 sys-devel/binutils: 2.16.1-r2
58 sys-devel/gcc-config: 1.3.13-r2
59 sys-devel/libtool: 1.5.22
60 virtual/os-headers: 2.6.11-r2
61 ACCEPT_KEYWORDS="x86"
62 AUTOCLEAN="yes"
63 CBUILD="i686-pc-linux-gnu"
64 CFLAGS="-march=athlon-xp -O3 -pipe"
65 CHOST="i686-pc-linux-gnu"
66 CONFIG_PROTECT="/etc /usr/kde/3.4/env /usr/kde/3.4/share/config /usr/kde/3.4/shutdown
67 /usr/lib/X11/xkb /usr/lib/mozilla/defaults/pref /usr/share/config /usr/share/texmf/dvipdfm/config/
68 /usr/share/texmf/dvips/config/ /usr/share/texmf/tex/generic/config/
69 /usr/share/texmf/tex/platex/config/ /usr/share/texmf/xdvi/"
70 CONFIG_PROTECT_MASK="/etc/env.d /etc/gconf /etc/revdep-rebuild /etc/splash /etc/terminfo"
71 CXXFLAGS="-march=athlon-xp -O3 -pipe"
72 DISTDIR="/usr/portage/distfiles"
73 FEATURES="autoconfig distlocks metadata-transfer sandbox sfperms strict"
74 GENTOO_MIRRORS="http://gentoo.mirrors.tds.net/gentoo"
75 PKGDIR="/usr/portage/packages"
76 PORTAGE_RSYNC_OPTS="--recursive --links --safe-links --perms --times --compress --force
77 --whole-file --delete --delete-after --stats --timeout=180 --exclude='/distfiles'
78 --exclude='/local' --exclude='/packages'"
79 PORTAGE_TMPDIR="/var/tmp"
80 PORTDIR="/usr/portage"
81 SYNC="rsync://rsync.us.gentoo.org/gentoo-portage"
82 USE="x86 X alsa apm arts avi berkdb bitmap-fonts cli crypt cups dri eds emboss encode foomaticdb
83 fortran gcj gif gnome gpm gstreamer gtk gtk2 hal howl imlib ipv6 isdnlog jpeg libg++ libwww mad
84 maildir metacity mikmod motif mp3 mpeg ncurses nls ogg oggvorbis opengl oss pam pcre pdflib perl
85 png postgres pppd python qt3 qt4 quicktime readline reflection samba sasl sdl server session snmp
86 spell spl ssl symlink tcltk tcpd threads truetype truetype-fonts type1-fonts unicode vorbis xml2
87 xmms xorg xv zlib elibc_glibc kernel_linux userland_GNU video_cards_radeon"
88 Unset: CTARGET, EMERGE_DEFAULT_OPTS, INSTALL_MASK, LANG, LC_ALL, LDFLAGS, LINGUAS, MAKEOPTS,
89 PORTAGE_RSYNC_EXTRA_OPTS, PORTDIR_OVERLAY
90
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