Yes I know this is a common occurrence, but it's bitten my test system. I've now got an array converting from raid1 to raid5, that will build but won't run, and won't grow. I suspect it's a similar problem to the one that bit Fedora - in that "mdadm --grow --continue" comes back with no error messages, but I can find no evidence that a background mdadm is actually running. As mentioned earlier, AppArmor is disabled, so I don't know why it won't work. Any ideas? I also can't run the array :-( Note that it's a test vm specifically for playing with raid, so no data is at stake, but equally, these things shouldn't fail and land you with a non-working array (and yes, I have downloaded the latest mdadm - unfortunately I have been mix-n-matching the distro and bleeding-edge versions). Cheers, Wol /dev/md127: Version : 1.2 Creation Time : Fri Aug 5 18:16:24 2016 Raid Level : raid5 Used Dev Size : 8380416 (7.99 GiB 8.58 GB) Raid Devices : 3 Total Devices : 4 Persistence : Superblock is persistent Update Time : Sun Aug 7 01:20:23 2016 State : active, Not Started Active Devices : 3 Working Devices : 4 Failed Devices : 0 Spare Devices : 1 Layout : left-symmetric Chunk Size : 64K Delta Devices : 1, (2->3) Name : kanga:testarray (local to host kanga) UUID : cf52ebc0:886a35cd:688274b4:3f16096c Events : 157 Number Major Minor RaidDevice State 4 8 16 0 active sync /dev/sdb 1 8 32 1 active sync /dev/sdc 3 8 64 2 active sync /dev/sde 2 8 48 - spare /dev/sdd /dev/sdb: Magic : a92b4efc Version : 1.2 Feature Map : 0x44 Array UUID : cf52ebc0:886a35cd:688274b4:3f16096c Name : kanga:testarray (local to host kanga) Creation Time : Fri Aug 5 18:16:24 2016 Raid Level : raid5 Raid Devices : 3 Avail Dev Size : 16760832 (7.99 GiB 8.58 GB) Array Size : 16760832 (15.98 GiB 17.16 GB) Data Offset : 16384 sectors New Offset : 16128 sectors Super Offset : 8 sectors State : clean Device UUID : e9e6426d:d33b9c14:b8bce7e8:780f848e Reshape pos'n : 0 Delta Devices : 1 (2->3) Update Time : Sun Aug 7 01:20:23 2016 Bad Block Log : 512 entries available at offset 72 sectors Checksum : 41eb0fd7 - correct Events : 157 Layout : left-symmetric Chunk Size : 64K Device Role : Active device 0 Array State : AAA ('A' == active, '.' == missing, 'R' == replacing) /dev/sdc: Magic : a92b4efc Version : 1.2 Feature Map : 0x44 Array UUID : cf52ebc0:886a35cd:688274b4:3f16096c Name : kanga:testarray (local to host kanga) Creation Time : Fri Aug 5 18:16:24 2016 Raid Level : raid5 Raid Devices : 3 Avail Dev Size : 16760832 (7.99 GiB 8.58 GB) Array Size : 16760832 (15.98 GiB 17.16 GB) Data Offset : 16384 sectors New Offset : 16128 sectors Super Offset : 8 sectors State : clean Device UUID : 9566866f:cc4cca0d:d8b54faf:f44e2e97 Reshape pos'n : 0 Delta Devices : 1 (2->3) Update Time : Sun Aug 7 01:20:23 2016 Bad Block Log : 512 entries available at offset 72 sectors Checksum : c6ed915 - correct Events : 157 Layout : left-symmetric Chunk Size : 64K Device Role : Active device 1 Array State : AAA ('A' == active, '.' == missing, 'R' == replacing) /dev/sdd: Magic : a92b4efc Version : 1.2 Feature Map : 0x44 Array UUID : cf52ebc0:886a35cd:688274b4:3f16096c Name : kanga:testarray (local to host kanga) Creation Time : Fri Aug 5 18:16:24 2016 Raid Level : raid5 Raid Devices : 3 Avail Dev Size : 16760832 (7.99 GiB 8.58 GB) Array Size : 16760832 (15.98 GiB 17.16 GB) Data Offset : 16384 sectors New Offset : 16128 sectors Super Offset : 8 sectors State : clean Device UUID : fed79c82:8510d13a:496617f5:c1381778 Reshape pos'n : 0 Delta Devices : 1 (2->3) Update Time : Sun Aug 7 01:20:23 2016 Bad Block Log : 512 entries available at offset 72 sectors Checksum : 733ca876 - correct Events : 157 Layout : left-symmetric Chunk Size : 64K Device Role : spare Array State : AAA ('A' == active, '.' == missing, 'R' == replacing) /dev/sde: Magic : a92b4efc Version : 1.2 Feature Map : 0x4 Array UUID : cf52ebc0:886a35cd:688274b4:3f16096c Name : kanga:testarray (local to host kanga) Creation Time : Fri Aug 5 18:16:24 2016 Raid Level : raid5 Raid Devices : 3 Avail Dev Size : 16760832 (7.99 GiB 8.58 GB) Array Size : 16760832 (15.98 GiB 17.16 GB) Data Offset : 16384 sectors Super Offset : 8 sectors Unused Space : before=16296 sectors, after=0 sectors State : clean Device UUID : 51271324:1b29e46a:521658dd:5747e61e Reshape pos'n : 0 Delta Devices : 1 (2->3) Update Time : Sun Aug 7 01:20:23 2016 Bad Block Log : 512 entries available at offset 72 sectors Checksum : d3d5cfbd - correct Events : 157 Layout : left-symmetric Chunk Size : 64K Device Role : Active device 2 Array State : AAA ('A' == active, '.' == missing, 'R' == replacing) -- 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