FAI3 / mdadm

[Michael Tautschnig]

> Hi *,
> 
> I'm trying to set up an FAI3 etch installation on a sarge machine (both
> amd64).
> I have a strangeness concerning the installation of the mdadm package
> (I'm installing on a raid1 which is working fine under fai2.10.5/sarge):
> Building the nfsroot (using debootstrap 0.3.3) everything works out
> fine, but during the installation of a new machine the mdadm package
> won't finish installing with the error:
> ---
> Setting up mdadm (2.5.3.git200608202239-6) ...
> dpkg: error processing mdadm (--configure):
>  subprocess post-installation script returned error exit status 1
> ---
> I'm wondering if this error is etch or FAI3 related? To me it seems
> strange that the nfsroot is building fine, but the installation goes wrong.
>

I've seen these errors here as well, but didn't find the time to debug them (and
didn't care about mdadm at all). Could you please try to do this? Would be very
nice to know the reason of this problem.

Some hints:

Try 

chroot $NFSROOT
apt-get -f install

Does it then try to reinstall mdadm? Does it ask any questions? If that doesn't
work, please insert a "set -vx" in the second line of
$NFSROOT/var/lib/dpkg/info/mdadm.postinst and retry the apt-get -f install

Thanks in advance,
Michael

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