openSUSE Recommended Update: mdadm: fixed some race conditions during startup ______________________________________________________________________________ Announcement ID: openSUSE-RU-2012:0727-1 Rating: moderate References: #752869 Affected Products: openSUSE 12.1 ______________________________________________________________________________ An update that has one recommended fix can now be installed. Description: mdadm was updated for 12.1 to fix: - udev-rules.fix: make sure systemd doesn't try to mount array before it is fully assembled. (bnc#752869) - boot.md/mkinitrd-boot.sh: complete any incremental assembly before attempting to assemble arrays. If incremental assembly has partialy assembled degraded arrays, now is the time to start them going. (bnc#752869) Patch Instructions: To install this openSUSE Recommended Update use YaST online_update. Alternatively you can run the command listed for your product: - openSUSE 12.1: zypper in -t patch openSUSE-2012-318 To bring your system up-to-date, use "zypper patch". Package List: - openSUSE 12.1 (i586 x86_64): mdadm-3.2.2-4.4.1 mdadm-debuginfo-3.2.2-4.4.1 mdadm-debugsource-3.2.2-4.4.1 References: https://bugzilla.novell.com/752869