Description of problem: I have seen this problem with both F11 and rawhide (F12 Alpha). My system has two SATA drives, each of which is divided into a 12 or so partitions. I have created 11 md RAID-1 devices on top of these partitions: md0 (sda2,sdb2) ext3 (/boot64) md1 (sda3,sdb3) ext3 (/boot32) md2 (sda5,sdb5) LVM PV . . . . . . . . . md11 (sda14,sdb14) LVM PV All of the PVs are part of a single volume group that holds LVs for various root filesystems, KVM guest virtual disks, etc. This worked just fine up through F10. As of F11, however, this configuration causes anaconda to crash with a message about "file descriptor out of range in select()". I cannot capture the backtrace, because that causes anaconda to go back into its storage discovery code. I suspect, although I am by no means sure, that anaconda may be making the same assumption that mkinitrd did -- that sysfs will list all of the PVs required by an LV's VG. (See bug #506189.) Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable): anaconda from F12 Alpha DVD (x86_64) How reproducible: 100% Steps to Reproduce: 1. Set up system as described above. 2. Attempt to install Fedora 11 or rawhide (Fedora 12 Alpha). Actual results: Traceback Expected results: Successful install -- at least with Fedora 11. ;-) Additional info: I'm more that willing to debug this further, but I don't know how to do so, since there's no way for me to capture the backtrace.
*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of bug 516041 ***