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When reusing an existing filesystem for / (root), Anaconda is supposed to check whether the filesystem is empty or not and for filesystems that are not empty, re-creating the format should be enforced. However this check doesn't work with LVM and Stratis (and potentially other complex storage devices) because when Anaconda tries to mount the device it is not set up. The mount operation silently fails: ----- INFO:program:Running... mount -t xfs -o ro /dev/mapper/vgroup0-root /tmp/blivet-tmp.vgroup0-rootrfffnbk5 INFO:program:stderr: INFO:program:b"mount: /tmp/blivet-tmp.vgroup0-rootrfffnbk5: fsconfig() failed: /dev/mapper/vgroup0-root: Can't lookup blockdev." INFO:program:b' dmesg(1) may have more information after failed mount system call.' DEBUG:program:Return code: 32 ----- Installing on a filesystem that already contains existing (older) installation of Fedora than can randomly during the payload installation. Reproducible: Always
Proposed as a Freeze Exception for 45-final by Fedora user vtrefny using the blocker tracking app because: Reusing filesystem with an old Fedora installation can lead to crash during the new payload installation (conflict between the existing "old" files and the new files that are being copied/installed). This does not happen with btrfs and also requires user to explicitly disable the recreate option which is enabled by default for / so I don't think this is serious enough to be a blocker.
+3 in https://forge.fedoraproject.org/quality/blocker-review/issues/2206 , marking accepted FE.
upstream PR: https://github.com/rhinstaller/anaconda/pull/7344
FEDORA-2026-d8c35ffdd6 (anaconda-45.29-1.fc45) has been submitted as an update to Fedora 45. https://bodhi.fedoraproject.org/updates/FEDORA-2026-d8c35ffdd6
FEDORA-2026-d8c35ffdd6 has been pushed to the Fedora 45 testing repository. Soon you'll be able to install the update with the following command: `sudo dnf upgrade --enablerepo=updates-testing --refresh --advisory=FEDORA-2026-d8c35ffdd6` You can provide feedback for this update here: https://bodhi.fedoraproject.org/updates/FEDORA-2026-d8c35ffdd6 See also https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/QA:Updates_Testing for more information on how to test updates.
FEDORA-2026-d8c35ffdd6 (anaconda-45.29-1.fc45) has been pushed to the Fedora 45 stable repository. If problem still persists, please make note of it in this bug report.