Description of problem: Tried to add a couple partitions for the mixed exception test case, had to add logic partitions due to MBR partitioning. I have added and removed a VG before this crash, so that might have influenced things. Version-Release number of selected component: anaconda-26.21.1-1 The following was filed automatically by anaconda: anaconda 26.21.1-1 exception report Traceback (most recent call first): File "/usr/lib/python3.6/site-packages/blivetgui/blivetgui.py", line 211, in _reraise_exception raise type(exception)(str(exception) + "\n" + traceback) File "/usr/lib/python3.6/site-packages/blivetgui/blivetgui.py", line 440, in add_device self._reraise_exception(result.exception, result.traceback) _ped.PartitionException: Can't add a logical partition to /dev/sda, because there is no extended partition. Traceback (most recent call last): File "/usr/lib/python3.6/site-packages/blivetgui/blivet_utils.py", line 1067, in add_device blivet.partitioning.do_partitioning(self.storage) File "/usr/lib/python3.6/site-packages/blivet/partitioning.py", line 582, in do_partitioning allocate_partitions(storage, disks, partitions, free) File "/usr/lib/python3.6/site-packages/blivet/partitioning.py", line 961, in allocate_partitions _part.req_start_sector, _part.req_end_sector) File "/usr/lib/python3.6/site-packages/blivet/partitioning.py", line 446, in add_partition constraint=constraint) File "/usr/lib64/python3.6/site-packages/parted/decorators.py", line 42, in new ret = fn(*args, **kwds) File "/usr/lib64/python3.6/site-packages/parted/disk.py", line 245, in addPartition constraint.getPedConstraint()) _ped.PartitionException: Can't add a logical partition to /dev/sda, because there is no extended partition. Additional info: addons: com_redhat_kdump, com_redhat_docker cmdline: /usr/libexec/system-python /sbin/anaconda executable: /sbin/anaconda hashmarkername: anaconda kernel: 4.11.0-0.rc4.git0.1.fc26.x86_64 product: Fedora release: Cannot get release name. type: anaconda version: 26
Created attachment 1269722 [details] File: anaconda-tb
Created attachment 1269724 [details] File: environ
Created attachment 1269725 [details] File: lsblk_output
Created attachment 1269726 [details] File: nmcli_dev_list
Created attachment 1269727 [details] File: os_info
Similar problem has been detected: Found a simpler reproducer: - create an unencrypted /boot primary partition - create unencrypted / extended partition - try to create encrypted xfs /home logical partition -> Crash! :) addons: com_redhat_kdump, com_redhat_docker cmdline: /usr/libexec/system-python /sbin/anaconda hashmarkername: anaconda kernel: 4.11.0-0.rc4.git0.1.fc26.x86_64 package: anaconda-26.21.1-1 product: Fedora reason: _ped.PartitionException: Can't add a logical partition to /dev/sda, because there is no extended partition. release: Cannot get release name. version: 26
Similar problem has been detected: Try to create a home partition,but failed addons: com_redhat_kdump cmdline: /usr/libexec/system-python /sbin/anaconda --liveinst --method=livecd:///dev/mapper/live-base hashmarkername: anaconda kernel: 4.11.0-0.rc3.git0.2.fc26.x86_64 other involved packages: blivet-gui-2.1.1-1.fc26.noarch package: anaconda-core-26.21.1-1.fc26.x86_64 product: Fedora reason: AttributeError: 'NoneType' object has no attribute 'children' release: Fedora release 26 (Twenty Six) version: 26
Similar problem has been detected: create a /home extended partition,and try to create a logical partition on it addons: com_redhat_kdump, com_redhat_docker cmdline: /usr/libexec/system-python /sbin/anaconda hashmarkername: anaconda kernel: 4.11.0-0.rc3.git0.2.fc26.x86_64 package: anaconda-26.21.1-1 product: Fedora reason: _ped.PartitionException: Can't add a logical partition to /dev/sda, because there is no extended partition. release: Cannot get release name. version: 26
*** Bug 1440371 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***
"04:17:35,068 DEBUG blivet: removing empty extended partition from sda" Changing component to blivet, it automatically removes the extended partition after creating, because it is empty.
*** Bug 1442020 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***
*** Bug 1464382 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***