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Bug 840890 - Preserving disks causes anaconda to fail to write a LUKS encrypted PV
Summary: Preserving disks causes anaconda to fail to write a LUKS encrypted PV
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Status: CLOSED ERRATA
Alias: None
Product: Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6
Classification: Red Hat
Component: anaconda
Version: 6.3
Hardware: All
OS: Linux
unspecified
unspecified
Target Milestone: rc
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Assignee: David Lehman
QA Contact: Release Test Team
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Depends On:
Blocks: 670971 1023566 1056248
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Reported: 2012-07-17 14:14 UTC by Matthew Mosesohn
Modified: 2014-10-14 06:38 UTC (History)
7 users (show)

Fixed In Version: anaconda-13.21.220-1
Doc Type: Bug Fix
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Last Closed: 2014-10-14 06:38:44 UTC
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Red Hat Product Errata RHBA-2014:1380 0 normal SHIPPED_LIVE anaconda bug fix and enhancement update 2014-10-14 01:10:50 UTC

Description Matthew Mosesohn 2012-07-17 14:14:23 UTC 
Description of problem:
I am trying to install off an ISO located on /boot (sda1) as a recovery method, preserving existing disks.  The install needs to preserve data on sda1, use an ISO on sda1, and wipe and replace sda2 with an LVM partition containing a series of defined partitions.

Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable):
RHEL 6.3

How reproducible:
Always

Steps to Reproduce:
1. Install a system normally with a 3GB /boot
2. Load in install media and required components to boot from disk on /boot. (Will post files to this bz)
3. Run installation
  
Actual results:
The install fails on configuring disks

Expected results:
The LUKS portion shouldn't fail, and the install should proceed.

Additional info:
If you remove the --encrypted and volume_key elements from the pv definition, the partitioning succeeds.
Comment 5 David Lehman 2012-07-31 15:43:30 UTC 
Here's a link to an updates image containing a proposed fix:

  http://dlehman.fedorapeople.org/updates/updates-840890.0.img


If you want to use it from there, just add the following to your boot command line:

  updates=http://dlehman.fedorapeople.org/updates/updates-840890.0.img


Let me know how it works.
Comment 6 Matthew Mosesohn 2012-07-31 16:29:12 UTC 
David,

I don't see any change in behavior. Would you like a new traceback? It looks quite the same.
Comment 7 Matthew Mosesohn 2012-07-31 16:31:46 UTC 
Also, the logs say "failed to mount loopback dvice /dev/loop7 on /tmp/update-disk as /tmp/updates.img: (null)".

It does save the updates image and it is located in /tmp/update-disk (the autopart_type.py file).  

Any other recommendations?
Comment 8 David Lehman 2012-07-31 19:19:11 UTC 
Sorry about that -- the updates I sent earlier had the wrong patch applied.

Here's a new one:

  http://dlehman.fedorapeople.org/updates/updates-840890.1.img


If you want to use it from there, just add the following to your boot command line:

  updates=http://dlehman.fedorapeople.org/updates/updates-840890.1.img


(Note the .1 where there was a .0 in the first image.)

Let me know how it works.
Comment 9 Matthew Mosesohn 2012-07-31 21:15:11 UTC 
David,

Great work!!  It fixes the issues with writing over an existing LUKS partition or writing a new partition (existing sda2 with LUKS or no sda2 at all).  That covers both scenarios I might run into. Thanks a ton!

I'm still running into issues with it finding the ISO image now, but we can take that conversation offline.
Comment 12 RHEL Program Management 2013-05-06 21:17:44 UTC 
This request was evaluated by Red Hat Product Management for
inclusion in a Red Hat Enterprise Linux release.  Product
Management has requested further review of this request by
Red Hat Engineering, for potential inclusion in a Red Hat
Enterprise Linux release for currently deployed products.
This request is not yet committed for inclusion in a release.
Comment 15 Jan Stodola 2014-08-12 14:45:37 UTC 
Reproduced with RHEL-6.5, retested with anaconda-13.21.224-1.el6, compose RHEL-6.6-20140731.1. Kickstart installation was successful and encrypted PV created.

Moving to VERIFIED.
Comment 16 errata-xmlrpc 2014-10-14 06:38:44 UTC 
Since the problem described in this bug report should be
resolved in a recent advisory, it has been closed with a
resolution of ERRATA.

For information on the advisory, and where to find the updated
files, follow the link below.

If the solution does not work for you, open a new bug report.

http://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHBA-2014-1380.html
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