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[Jason Ward <440831@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

I have this problem after doing an install from the alternative CD 11.10
so it'snot just isolated to the live CD.

mdadm may well have been removed for speed reasons, but then Disk
Utility needs to fail gracefully and not as it does show that mdadm
completed successfully.

Please don't be fooled that everyone that might come across this can fix
it, I have never done raid on Linux before and I am still learning, and
struggling after 2 days (i.e. 2 days after first attempting to create an
RAID array its still not functional).  Issues like mdadm and Disk
Utility not working nicely together, do indeed make me wish for the days
when I used to do this in Windows with a huge amount of comparative
ease.

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Title:
  RAID creation fails due to absent package "mdadm"

Status in “gnome-disk-utility” package in Ubuntu:
  Confirmed

Bug description:
  Binary package hint: gnome-disk-utility

  I can't create a RAID0 Array because the package "mdadm" is not
  installed.

  This is the error that I get:
  Error starting job: Failed to execute child process "mdadm" (No such file or directory)

  There is no hint, what I should do then, this is not so good for the average user.
  Maybe PackageKit support could be a good solution. There could be an dialog that could help the user to install "mdadm".

  Another problem is that during the installation of mdamd, postfix was
  also installed which asks question that the average user can't
  understand.

  The last problem is that I had no permission to write something on may array that I had finally created.
  The only user that had access was root. I was able to change the permission, but I don't know if everybody is able to do so.

  I hope this information is helpful.

  Regards
  Achim

  ProblemType: Bug
  Architecture: amd64
  Date: Fri Oct  2 21:04:45 2009
  DistroRelease: Ubuntu 9.10
  ExecutablePath: /usr/bin/palimpsest
  Package: gnome-disk-utility 2.28.0-0ubuntu2
  ProcEnviron:
   LANG=de_DE.UTF-8
   SHELL=/bin/bash
  ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 2.6.31-11.36-generic
  SourcePackage: gnome-disk-utility
  Uname: Linux 2.6.31-11-generic x86_64

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