Description of problem: Boot anaconda with an existing mdraid RAID1. Crash. Reproduced with iso Fedora-Server-netinst-x86_64-25-1.3.iso. It has anaconda-25.20.8-1. Reproduce: Start with a system with two equal sized empty disks, sda and sdb. Boot inst.rescue. Set up a RAID1 by something like this (this is from memory, not pasted from actual commands) fdisk /dev/sda n (new) p (primary) 1 (partition 1) <enter> (default start block) +1024M (size) t (type) fd (linux raid autodetect) n (new) p (primary) 2 (partition 2) <enter> (default next start block) <enter> (size: rest of disk) t (type) fd (linux raid autodetect) w (write and exit) sfdisk -dump /dev/sda > dump sfdisk /dev/sdb < dump mdadm --create /dev/md/BOOT --level=1 --raid-disks=2 /dev/sda1 /dev/sdb1 mdadm --create /dev/md/SYS --level=1 --raid-disks=2 /dev/sda2 /dev/sdb2 Check that it syncs by cat /proc/mdstat cat /proc/mdstat cat /proc/mdstat Let it sync for some seconds, then reboot, and run the normal GUI installer. It crashes at startup. Version-Release number of selected component: anaconda-25.20.8-1 The following was filed automatically by anaconda: anaconda 25.20.8-1 exception report Traceback (most recent call first): File "/usr/lib/python3.5/site-packages/blivet/devicetree.py", line 148, in _add_device raise ValueError("device is already in tree") File "/usr/lib/python3.5/site-packages/blivet/threads.py", line 45, in run_with_lock return m(*args, **kwargs) File "/usr/lib/python3.5/site-packages/blivet/populator/helpers/partition.py", line 111, in run self._devicetree._add_device(device) File "/usr/lib/python3.5/site-packages/blivet/populator/populator.py", line 306, in handle_device device = helper_class(self, info).run() File "/usr/lib/python3.5/site-packages/blivet/threads.py", line 45, in run_with_lock return m(*args, **kwargs) File "/usr/lib/python3.5/site-packages/blivet/populator/populator.py", line 154, in _add_slave_devices self.handle_device(slave_info) File "/usr/lib/python3.5/site-packages/blivet/threads.py", line 45, in run_with_lock return m(*args, **kwargs) File "/usr/lib/python3.5/site-packages/blivet/populator/helpers/mdraid.py", line 55, in run self._devicetree._add_slave_devices(self.data) File "/usr/lib/python3.5/site-packages/blivet/populator/populator.py", line 306, in handle_device device = helper_class(self, info).run() File "/usr/lib/python3.5/site-packages/blivet/threads.py", line 45, in run_with_lock return m(*args, **kwargs) File "/usr/lib/python3.5/site-packages/blivet/populator/helpers/mdraid.py", line 216, in run self._devicetree.handle_device(array_info, update_orig_fmt=True) File "/usr/lib/python3.5/site-packages/blivet/populator/populator.py", line 345, in handle_format helper_class(self, info, device).run() File "/usr/lib/python3.5/site-packages/blivet/threads.py", line 45, in run_with_lock return m(*args, **kwargs) File "/usr/lib/python3.5/site-packages/blivet/populator/populator.py", line 318, in handle_device self.handle_format(info, device) File "/usr/lib/python3.5/site-packages/blivet/threads.py", line 45, in run_with_lock return m(*args, **kwargs) File "/usr/lib/python3.5/site-packages/blivet/populator/populator.py", line 518, in _populate self.handle_device(dev) File "/usr/lib/python3.5/site-packages/blivet/threads.py", line 45, in run_with_lock return m(*args, **kwargs) File "/usr/lib/python3.5/site-packages/blivet/populator/populator.py", line 451, in populate self._populate() File "/usr/lib/python3.5/site-packages/blivet/threads.py", line 45, in run_with_lock return m(*args, **kwargs) File "/usr/lib/python3.5/site-packages/blivet/blivet.py", line 271, in reset self.devicetree.populate(cleanup_only=cleanup_only) File "/usr/lib/python3.5/site-packages/blivet/threads.py", line 45, in run_with_lock return m(*args, **kwargs) File "/usr/lib/python3.5/site-packages/blivet/osinstall.py", line 1175, in storage_initialize storage.reset() File "/usr/lib64/python3.5/threading.py", line 862, in run self._target(*self._args, **self._kwargs) File "/usr/lib64/python3.5/site-packages/pyanaconda/threads.py", line 251, in run threading.Thread.run(self, *args, **kwargs) ValueError: device is already in tree Additional info: addons: com_redhat_kdump, com_redhat_docker cmdline: /usr/bin/python3 /sbin/anaconda cmdline_file: BOOT_IMAGE=vmlinuz initrd=initrd.img inst.stage2=hd:LABEL=Fedora-S-dvd-x86_64-25 inst.sshd executable: /sbin/anaconda hashmarkername: anaconda kernel: 4.8.6-300.fc25.x86_64 product: Fedora release: Cannot get release name. type: anaconda version: 25
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The image has md5sum b3c2ae50865d16f7f5861bb8f4dd65da Fedora-Server-netinst-x86_64-25-1.3.iso
You are using sfdisk to clone sda, but this does not generate a new UUID for sdb. As a result, your disks' partition tables have the same UUID (sda/sdb), as do sda1/sdb1 and so on. UUIDs must be unique, of course, so you'll have to remedy this on your end. Thanks for the report and good luck.
*** Bug 1436578 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***