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Bug 1067425

Summary: creating partition in %pre in kickstart fails to recognise the disks
Product: Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6 Reporter: Arif Ali <mail>
Component: anacondaAssignee: Anaconda Maintenance Team <anaconda-maint-list>
Status: CLOSED NOTABUG QA Contact: Release Test Team <release-test-team-automation>
Severity: low Docs Contact:
Priority: unspecified    
Version: 6.5CC: mail
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Last Closed: 2014-02-20 19:08:15 UTC Type: Bug
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last 100 lines of storage.log
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Description Arif Ali 2014-02-20 12:51:08 UTC
Created attachment 865495 [details]
The script in %pre

Description of problem:

Creating a partition using parted in the %pre section of the kickstart doesn't allow anaconda to see the disks that it has created.

Many debugs to the stdout by cat /proc/partitions within the %pre section, showed that the partitions in-fact were created.

After rebooting the node, I was able to install on the same disks without re-creating the partitions using the same kickstart file, without the parted commands included in the script.

Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable):


How reproducible:
Everytime


Steps to Reproduce:
1. Create a standard kickstart file
2. Instead of the partitioning add %include /tmp/partitionfile 
3. include the attached script to the %pre section
4. Install the machine using the kickstart file

Actual results:
Anaconda is not able to see the disks, and we see the following output on the screen

Specified nonexistent partition sda1 in partition command


Expected results:

The installation should see the partition, and continue to install


Additional info:

Comment 1 Arif Ali 2014-02-20 12:53:52 UTC
Created attachment 865496 [details]
last 100 lines of storage.log

Comment 2 Arif Ali 2014-02-20 12:55:17 UTC
Created attachment 865498 [details]
program.log

Comment 3 Arif Ali 2014-02-20 12:59:24 UTC
Created attachment 865503 [details]
last 1000 lines of storage.log

Comment 5 Arif Ali 2014-02-20 18:59:21 UTC
Not a Bug

Please close, resolved the problem

clearpart --none was required
kpart -a -s was removed