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[Brian Murray <brian@xxxxxxxxxx>]

Jason this bug is about gnome-disk-utility, a GUI application for
managing disks, not have having a dependency on mdadm so that one can
create RAID arrays.  The alternate installer doesn't have a GUI and
doesn't include gnome-disk-utility so I'm fairly certain this isn't your
bug.  The alternate installer is provided by the package debian-
installer and it would be more appropriate for you to file about about
that package.  Thanks!

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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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