The shutdown process sometimes halts with a "Please enter the root password (Or press Ctrl-D to continue):". * Gentoo 1.4_rc2 is installed with root on a 2 drive software IDE RAID0 using reiserfs. (/boot is on a third separate non-raided hard drive.) * Kernel 2.4.20-gentoo-r1 * The problem appears randomly (I haven't been able to wilfully reproduce it) * Allowing the shutdown to continue the machine does, mostly (see below), shutdown ok * The last message on screen is 'md' reporting that the RAID drives have been set to read-only mode. This is not a complete md shutdown compared to stopping an md raid from a Gentoo boot where root is not on the raid itself (I have 1.4_rc2 also installed on the separate third drive for maintenance/testing). Figuring perhaps that the RAID isn't getting enough time to shutdown I edited halt.sh and added a few more sleeps and syncs at the end of the shutdown cycle, but the problem still occurs. This is just a minor concern, no data has been lost yet. However: Using a development kernel (have tried 2.5.60 to 2.5.64) on the same system the shutdown process is different. * The md driver reports that md0 is 'still in use' as the final lines on screen before the machine reboots. * This has caused a total filesystem crash on one occasion. Reiserfs could not adequately recover and I had to do a complete re-install. What do I expect using a development kernel right? My concern is that Gentoo currently isn't playing nicely when it uses an md raid as root, even with the stable kernel. The development kernels work fine from my maintenance boot on the third hard drive where the md0 raid can be started/stopped separately. So I'm assuming there's something going awry in the shutdown scripts when Gentoo has its root on the raid, showing up midly with the 2.4 kernel and severely with 2.5. Happy to test any suggested changes to see if we can fix this. Ashton
*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of 12612 ***
