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Description of problem:

In trying to do a reinstall of rhel6 over an previous
install, attempting to avoid formatting the root
partition kills the install.  Note the partition
is fsck-clean and coherent.

Tried both creating a custom partitioning and choosing
a (default) reuse of discovered partitions with both
resulting in the same aborted installation if disabling
format of the root (lv_root) was attempted.

Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable):


How reproducible:

(as above)

Steps to Reproduce:
1. (as above)
2.
3.
  
Actual results:

Installer bombs with "unhandled exception".


Expected results:

Installation should proceed normally but preserve
filesystem content outside of the to-be installed file
content.


Additional info:

Please attach the complete traceback to this bug report.

Yes, I know we allow this, but that does not mean it is good practice to reinstall on top of an existing root filesystem. You should not expect things to work in any sense, really. I don't even think we should allow it. There are countless options available for managing your personal data in such a way as to allow reformat of the rootfs without losing your data.

This request was evaluated by Red Hat Product Management for inclusion in a Red
Hat Enterprise Linux major release.  Product Management has requested further
review of this request by Red Hat Engineering, for potential inclusion in a Red
Hat Enterprise Linux Major release.  This request is not yet committed for
inclusion.

Development Management has reviewed and declined this request.  You may appeal
this decision by reopening this request.

The needinfo request[s] on this closed bug have been removed as they have been unresolved for 1000 days