On Sun, Jan 31, 2016 at 9:59 AM, Björn Augustsson <oggust@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: > > On Sat, Jan 30, 2016 at 6:09 PM, Phil Turmel <philip@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > > Hi Björn, > > > > The kernel is waiting for mdmon (mdadm as a background task) to step > > through the stripes. mdmon died and the kernel will wait forever. > > OK. So I think the root cause here is that my invocation of mdadm was > unconfined, > because I was running it interactively. So it could create the backup file. > But the background version starts via systemd, and runs as mdadm_t, which > can't read that file (because it's in /boot). And poof. > > I'll file a bug vs the fedora selinux policy for this, too. Thanks for researching the SELinux vs. mdadm conflict in Fedora that bit me as well (http://marc.info/?l=linux-raid&m=145349072305613&w=2). If your Fedora selinux bug ticket makes it into general distribution, lots of other users will be helped. George -- George Rapp (Pataskala, OH) Home: george.rapp -- at -- gmail.com LinkedIn profile: https://www.linkedin.com/in/georgerapp Phone: +1 740 936 RAPP (740 936 7277) -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-raid" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html