Red Hat Bugzilla – Bug 78008
Anaconda cannot succesfully format lots of MDs
Last modified: 2007-04-18 12:48:31 EDT
From Bugzilla Helper: User-Agent: Mozilla/4.0 (compatible; MSIE 6.0; Windows NT 5.1; .NET CLR 1.0.3705) Description of problem: When you define lots (say 10) software raid devices (and put filesystems on them) using Disk Druid and click next it will format some filesystems and then stop the installation stating "An error occured trying to format md1. This problem is serious, and the install cannot continue. Press <Enter> to reboot your system." Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable): How reproducible: Always Steps to Reproduce: In disk druid do the following 1. Create a software raid partition on device sda of 100M 2. Create a software raid partition on device sdb of 100M 3. Create a software raid1 device (sda1+sdb1) ext3 /boot 4. Create a software raid partition on device sda of 1000M 5. Create a software raid partition on device sdb of 1000M 6. Create a software raid1 device (sda2+sdb2) ext3 /usr 7. Create a software raid partition on device sda of 1000M 8. Create a software raid partition on device sdb of 1000M 9. Create a software raid1 device (sda3+sdb3) ext3 /home 10. Create a software raid partition on device sda of 500M 11. Create a software raid partition on device sdb of 500M 12. Create a software raid1 device (sda4+sdb4) ext3 /chroot 13. Create a software raid partition on device sda of 500M 14. Create a software raid partition on device sdb of 500M 15. Create a software raid1 device (sda5+sdb5) ext3 /cache 16. Create a software raid partition on device sda of 500M 17. Create a software raid partition on device sdb of 500M 18. Create a software raid1 device (sda6+sdb6) ext3 /var 19. Create a software raid partition on device sda of 500M 20. Create a software raid partition on device sdb of 500M 21. Create a software raid1 device (sda7+sdb7) ext3 /var/log 22. Create a software raid partition on device sda of 600M 23. Create a software raid partition on device sdb of 600M 24. Create a software raid1 device (sda8+sdb8) swap 25. Create a software raid partition on device sda of 500M 26. Create a software raid partition on device sdb of 500M 27. Create a software raid1 device (sda9+sdb9) ext3 /tmp 28. Create a software raid partition on device sda of 500M 29. Create a software raid partition on device sdb of 500M 30. Create a software raid1 device (sda10+sdb10) ext3 / 31. Create a software raid partition on device sda of REST 32. Create a software raid partition on device sdb of REST 33. Create a software raid1 device (sda11+sdb11) ext3 /data Have everything formatted and click Next Actual Results: "An error occured trying to format md1. This problem is serious, and the install cannot continue. Press <Enter> to reboot your system." Expected Results: Anaconda should be able to succesfully create all of the filesystems on all of the MDs Additional info:
I can verify this, but the error message I'm getting from mkraid is that the array is active and to run raidstop first. Checking /proc/mdstat, md1 isn't active although md10 is. Looks like a raidtools bug in how it parses /proc/mdstat for the device in question