[Gluster-users] Ubuntu 14.04 LTS kernel upgrade has bricked my Gluster brick.

[Ernie Dunbar]

On 2015-06-18 15:10, Ernie Dunbar wrote:
> Hi everyone.
> 
> Today I did the latest security updates for Ubuntu 14.04 LTS, and
> after rebooting my failover/testing node for the new kernel version
> (3.13.0-55.62), the server no longer boots with the following message:
> 
> The disk drive for /brick1 is not ready yet or not present.
> keys:Continue to wait, or Press S to skip mounting or M for manual 
> recovery
> 
> If I manage to skip the mounting, I can complete the boot process, but
> I still can't mount brick1 from fstab. So gluster doesn't work on this
> node at all. The first, primary node is still up, waiting for that
> fateful reboot that will break everything that needs our gluster
> share.
> 
> What do I do from here?
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I found the problem. It was that the new kernel had changed the blkid of 
the disk. Changing /etc/fstab to refer to it by the device name (ie, 
/dev/sda6) fixed it.