Been strugling for a while with this problem. We are using Rocky 9.1 with raid devices created with mdadm. When a init 6 or init 0 is issued, the system keeps looping reporting that systemd-shutdown not all md devices stopped 1 left And keeps trying to umount a partition… I’ve started to goo…

ROCKY 9.1 : system with md devices never shuts down

toracat January 24, 2023, 1:43am 3

About the loop you are seeing, does it look similar to this?

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