This bug is being split off from https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=866519 . After a series of fixes for correctly presenting Intel fwraid devices in anaconda's disk picker, we eventually ran up against an issue in parted when anaconda tries to actually create the partitions for an installation to such a device. I don't entirely grok the issue myself, but it is clear it's separate from 866519, it's in parted, and bcl ought to be dealing with it. Here's some strategic IRC copypasta: <dlehman> bcl: it's not the p delimiter. it's that you instantiate a Device with a path and then when you access its path attr it's been resolved to a different path. so I do d=parted.Device(path="/dev/md/foo") ; print d.path => "/dev/md126p3" <bcl> oh, ok. I misunderstood that one then. so foo is a symlink to ../md126p3 <dlehman> right. somewhere in parted it probably has code to not resolve the symlink for /dev/mapper/ paths. if so, it would just need to applied also to /dev/md/ paths. <bcl> I'll have another look. got any way to reproduce that without special hardware? <dlehman> you can make a partitioned md device should be as simple as making a disklabel on top of a regular (named) md array, adding partitions ... <bcl> adamw: sounds like parted shouldn't de-reference symlinks. <bcl> which may cause other issues, so we'll see what I find in the code. <dlehman> bcl:fwiw it doesn't dereference symlinks for /dev/mapper/ devices
I'm going to skip the bureaucracy and mark this as accepted blocker as it can clearly inherit that status from 866519. That was an accepted blocker because it meant Intel fw RAID didn't work; now this bug is what's stopping Intel fw RAID from working. If that was a blocker, this necessarily must be. We're just splitting the issue out for clarity of assignment.
parted-3.1-9.fc18 has been submitted as an update for Fedora 18. https://admin.fedoraproject.org/updates/parted-3.1-9.fc18
I checked this fix with an image Tim built, it works fine. Will confirm again with TC7 tpmorrow.
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verified fixed in TC7.
Created attachment 639471 [details] strace of 'parted -s /dev/md126 p' on a fresh RAID-1 array booted from Beta TC7 desktop live I got strace output from the sticking parted command. Created the RAID-1 array afresh, booted F18 Beta TC7 live, installed strace, and ran 'strace -o parted.txt parted -s /dev/md126 p'. This attachment is the result.
Damn, wrong bug. Sorry. Disregard above comment.
parted-3.1-9.fc18 is now stable, closing.