MySQL process status is stopped on WF-500 appliance with error "Startup script /sbin/pan_check_ld_mounts.sh failed"
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Created On 10/18/22 13:51 PM - Last Modified 11/17/25 20:44 PM
Symptom
- Status of MySQL process is stopped with the following error:
admin@WF-500> show system software status … Process mysql stopped (pid: -1) - Startup script /sbin/pan_check_ld_mounts.sh failed with ret 6078
- Missing one or more of devices: /dev/md1, /dev/md2, /dev/md3, or /dev/md4.
admin@WF-500> show system disk-space Filesystem Size Used Avail Use% Mounted on /dev/root 17G 5.5G 11G 35% / none 63G 164K 63G 1% /dev /dev/sda5 27G 12G 14G 47% /opt/pancfg /dev/sda6 21G 7.7G 12G 40% /opt/panrepo tmpfs 63G 0 63G 0% /dev/shm /dev/sda8 56G 241M 53G 1% /opt/panlogs /dev/md1 275G 40G 222G 16% /opt/panlogs/ld1_1 /dev/md3 275G 45G 217G 18% /opt/vmrepo /dev/md4 642G 23G 588G 4% /opt/panlogs/ld2_2
- In raid.log, mounting of /dev/md[x] is failing:
Jan 27 13:39:08 DEBUG: raid_util: argv: ['Startup'] Jan 27 13:39:09 INFO: New Disk Pair A detected. Jan 27 13:39:09 INFO: New Disk Pair A detected. Jan 27 13:39:09 ERROR: mounting /dev/md2 failed with ret 32: mount: special device /dev/md2 does not exist Jan 27 13:39:09 DEBUG: Mounting Disk Pair A (/dev/md2) Jan 27 13:39:09 ERROR: mounting the Disk Pair A failed with ret mount: special device /dev/md2 does not exist
Environment
WF-500 appliances only.
Cause
During startup, one or two RAID disks are not recognized.
Resolution
- Run the following CLI command to recover the RAID controller:
admin@WF-500> debug software raid fixup auto
- Then reboot the system:
admin@WF-500> request restart system
Additional Information
The command "debug software raid fixup auto" was introduced via WF500-4785 and is available in PAN-OS versions: 8.0.18, 8.1.8, 9.0.2, 9.1.0, and later releases.