Bug 2469006 - Anaconda fails on multipath storage: multipath not included in Workstation Live ISO
Summary: Anaconda fails on multipath storage: multipath not included in Workstation Li...
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Status: NEW
Alias: None
Product: Fedora
Classification: Fedora
Component: anaconda
Version: 44
Hardware: Unspecified
OS: Unspecified
unspecified
unspecified
Target Milestone: ---
Assignee: Martin Kolman
QA Contact: Fedora Extras Quality Assurance
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Whiteboard:
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Blocks:
TreeView+ depends on / blocked
 
Reported: 2026-05-11 08:28 UTC by Petr Sklenar
Modified: 2026-05-11 12:06 UTC (History)
6 users (show)

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Last Closed: 2026-05-11 09:05:18 UTC
Type: ---
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Attachments (Terms of Use)
Log file: /tmp/journal.log (956.87 KB, text/plain)
2026-05-11 08:28 UTC, Petr Sklenar
no flags Details
Log file: /tmp/anaconda.log (6.38 KB, text/plain)
2026-05-11 08:28 UTC, Petr Sklenar
no flags Details
Log file: /tmp/storage.log (260.64 KB, text/plain)
2026-05-11 08:28 UTC, Petr Sklenar
no flags Details
Log file: /tmp/program.log (1.22 KB, text/plain)
2026-05-11 08:28 UTC, Petr Sklenar
no flags Details
Log file: /tmp/packaging.log (8.21 KB, text/plain)
2026-05-11 08:28 UTC, Petr Sklenar
no flags Details
Log file: /tmp/anaconda-webui.log (14.04 KB, text/plain)
2026-05-11 08:28 UTC, Petr Sklenar
no flags Details
multipath disk in use (1.33 MB, video/mp4)
2026-05-11 08:34 UTC, Petr Sklenar
no flags Details
workstation: lsblk shows two sd disk (45.28 KB, image/png)
2026-05-11 10:40 UTC, Petr Sklenar
no flags Details
server: lsblk shows mpatha disk (6.67 KB, image/png)
2026-05-11 10:40 UTC, Petr Sklenar
no flags Details

Description Petr Sklenar 2026-05-11 08:28:16 UTC
Installation of the system failed: Creating btrfs on /dev/sda3 org.fedoraproject.Anaconda.Error: mount failed: wrong fs type, bad option, bad superblock on /dev/sda2, missing codepage or helper program, or other error

---[ System & Environment Information ]---
OS: Fedora Linux 44 (Workstation Edition)
Anaconda version: 44.30
Anaconda UI version: 68

Comment 1 Petr Sklenar 2026-05-11 08:28:19 UTC
Created attachment 2140648 [details]
Log file: /tmp/journal.log

Comment 2 Petr Sklenar 2026-05-11 08:28:22 UTC
Created attachment 2140649 [details]
Log file: /tmp/anaconda.log

Comment 3 Petr Sklenar 2026-05-11 08:28:25 UTC
Created attachment 2140650 [details]
Log file: /tmp/storage.log

Comment 4 Petr Sklenar 2026-05-11 08:28:28 UTC
Created attachment 2140651 [details]
Log file: /tmp/program.log

Comment 5 Petr Sklenar 2026-05-11 08:28:33 UTC
Created attachment 2140652 [details]
Log file: /tmp/packaging.log

Comment 6 Petr Sklenar 2026-05-11 08:28:36 UTC
Created attachment 2140653 [details]
Log file: /tmp/anaconda-webui.log

Comment 7 Petr Sklenar 2026-05-11 08:33:51 UTC
1, https://redhat.atlassian.net/wiki/spaces/RTT/pages/307364353/Multipath+in+VM
2, check this these two disks
3, continue to install
4, after installation is initialized , tracebacks

Comment 8 Petr Sklenar 2026-05-11 08:34:51 UTC
Created attachment 2140654 [details]
multipath disk in use

reproducer

Comment 9 Vojtech Trefny 2026-05-11 08:58:59 UTC
The problem is the two disks are not identified as a single multipath device. So Anaconda then allows you to choose sda and sdb as installation destination and because these two have a single backing storage, the crash is expected. You should see a new `mpatha` device created by multipathd "on top" of sda and sdb and that's not happening here. This might be a workstation specific issue, because it seems to be working correctly for me with F44 server image with the "old" Anaconda.

Comment 10 Vojtech Trefny 2026-05-11 09:05:18 UTC
(In reply to Vojtech Trefny from comment #9)
> This might be a
> workstation specific issue, because it seems to be working correctly for me
> with F44 server image with the "old" Anaconda.

Ok, this was easy to debug: the workstation live image doesn't have multipath installed so it is not supposed to work :-)

Comment 11 Petr Sklenar 2026-05-11 09:22:40 UTC
@vtrefny : thanks very much for your quick investigation !

Fedora-Workstation-Live-44-1.7.x86_64.iso
multipath not installed
lsblk shows two disks
anacodna failure

Fedora-Server-netinst-x86_64-44-1.7.iso
multipath installed
lsblk shows 1 disk
installation finished successfully !!!, fedora was installed

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is seems strange to me that different type of distro has different supported hw ... reopening

Comment 12 Petr Sklenar 2026-05-11 10:40:07 UTC
Created attachment 2140682 [details]
workstation: lsblk shows two sd disk

Comment 13 Petr Sklenar 2026-05-11 10:40:52 UTC
Created attachment 2140683 [details]
server: lsblk shows mpatha disk


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