Bug 37 - During installation mdadm service is activated by default
Summary: During installation mdadm service is activated by default
Status: RESOLVED FIXED
Alias: None
Product: Mageia
Classification: Unclassified
Component: Installer (show other bugs)
Version: Cauldron
Hardware: All Linux
Priority: Normal normal
Target Milestone: ---
Assignee: Thierry Vignaud
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: 4510 (view as bug list)
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Reported: 2011-02-15 23:19 CET by Dick Gevers
Modified: 2012-03-24 23:34 CET (History)
6 users (show)

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Source RPM: drakx-installer-stage2
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Description Dick Gevers 2011-02-15 23:19:02 CET 
User-Agent:       Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux x86_64; en-GB; rv:1.9.1.16) Gecko/20101209 SeaMonkey/2.0.11
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Description of problem:

Proceed with the Mageia installation upto the summary and go to chaper "Services".

From this it becomes apparent that the service mdadm is activated by default to run always. 

On this computer (or a laptop) this is superfluous because no RAID disks are used. In fact there is only one fixed hard disk.

So the service should not be activated: it is useless.

(Bug was already present earlier upstream).

Reproducible: 

Steps to Reproduce:
D Morgan 2011-02-20 19:56:36 CET

CC: (none) => dmorganec
Assignee: ahmadsamir3891 => bugsquad

Ahmad Samir 2011-02-27 16:46:34 CET

See Also: (none) => https://qa.mandriva.com/show_bug.cgi?id=58536
Source RPM: mageia-dvd-1-x86_64.iso => drakx-installer-stage2

Comment 1 Thierry Vignaud 2011-03-03 16:52:37 CET 
Or mdadm should not be installed by default on laptops or if MD/DM/LVM aren't used

CC: (none) => thierry.vignaud
Assignee: bugsquad => thierry.vignaud

Comment 2 andré blais 2011-03-03 17:52:15 CET 
fwiw, mdadm was installed and activated by a full install of mdv 2010.2 free dvd on my laptop.
It hadn't been activated on mdv 2010.0
(It didn't appear as a non-activated service, so I guess not installed either.)

CC: (none) => andr55

Comment 3 Dick Gevers 2011-03-03 19:18:53 CET 
I saw it also in Mandriva in several past installs (and I think reported it).

FWIW I believe it shouldn't be activated by default on non-laptops if there aren't any raid drives/partitions around anywhere?
Comment 4 Dick Gevers 2011-03-16 23:21:45 CET 
Still valid for alpha 2 on my main Cauldron machine (64 bits).

(Laptop not yet tested).
Comment 5 Dick Gevers 2011-03-18 23:25:51 CET 
For laptop also still valid in Alpha2.
Ahmad Samir 2011-03-19 17:48:57 CET

CC: (none) => pterjan

Comment 6 Dick Gevers 2011-04-08 00:03:53 CEST 
Valid for beta 1

Hardware: x86_64 => All

Comment 7 Dick Gevers 2011-04-27 21:47:06 CEST 
Valid for Beta 2
Comment 8 Pascal Terjan 2011-04-28 14:24:33 CEST 
$ urpmf --suggests mdadm
udisks:mdadm
Comment 9 Marja Van Waes 2011-10-04 06:21:22 CEST 
I don't understand why this bug still has the "new" status, it got assigned to tv on 2011/3/3. So changing to "assigned".

Status: NEW => ASSIGNED
CC: (none) => m.van.waes

Comment 10 Marja Van Waes 2011-10-04 11:34:54 CEST 
Just learned that status ASSIGNED  doesn't mean assigned, but WORKING ON SOLUTION, therefore reverting status to NEW

Status: ASSIGNED => NEW

andré blais 2011-10-09 07:28:30 CEST

CC: andre999 => andre999mga

Comment 11 Dick Gevers 2011-11-12 00:21:54 CET 
Valid for mga2 alpha1
Comment 12 Thierry Vignaud 2012-01-19 20:36:23 CET 
Fixed in udisks-1.0.4-4

Status: NEW => RESOLVED
Resolution: (none) => FIXED

Comment 13 Colin Guthrie 2012-03-24 23:34:08 CET 
*** Bug 4510 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***

CC: (none) => mageia
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