Description of problem: 1. Installation Destination > Choose 6 disks previously used by anaconda of same version, with "guided" autopartitioning Btrfs. 2. Manual Partitioning > Delete all partitions/subvols 3. Add Root, set to Btrfs. 4. Finish. 5. Begin installation Crash The following was filed automatically by anaconda: anaconda 18.37.8 exception report Traceback (most recent call first): File "/usr/lib64/python2.7/site-packages/pyanaconda/storage/formats/__init__.py", line 322, in destroy raise FormatDestroyError(msg) File "/usr/lib64/python2.7/site-packages/pyanaconda/storage/devices.py", line 4169, in _destroy DeviceFormat(device=device.path, exists=True).destroy() File "/usr/lib64/python2.7/site-packages/pyanaconda/storage/devices.py", line 818, in destroy self._destroy() File "/usr/lib64/python2.7/site-packages/pyanaconda/storage/deviceaction.py", line 286, in execute self.device.destroy() File "/usr/lib64/python2.7/site-packages/pyanaconda/storage/devicetree.py", line 323, in processActions action.execute() File "/usr/lib64/python2.7/site-packages/pyanaconda/storage/__init__.py", line 323, in doIt self.devicetree.processActions() File "/usr/lib64/python2.7/site-packages/pyanaconda/storage/__init__.py", line 174, in turnOnFilesystems storage.doIt() File "/usr/lib64/python2.7/site-packages/pyanaconda/install.py", line 114, in doInstall turnOnFilesystems(storage) File "/usr/lib64/python2.7/threading.py", line 504, in run self.__target(*self.__args, **self.__kwargs) File "/usr/lib64/python2.7/site-packages/pyanaconda/threads.py", line 91, in run threading.Thread.run(self, *args, **kwargs) FormatDestroyError: error wiping old signatures from /dev/sda2: 1 Additional info: cmdline: /usr/bin/python /sbin/anaconda --liveinst --method=livecd:///dev/mapper/live-osimg-min --lang en_US.UTF-8 cmdline_file: initrd=initrd0.img root=live:CDLABEL=Fedora-18-TC3-x86_64-Live-Deskto rootfstype=auto ro rd.live.image quiet rhgb rd.luks=0 rd.md=0 rd.dm=0 BOOT_IMAGE=vmlinuz0 executable: /sbin/anaconda hashmarkername: anaconda kernel: 3.6.10-4.fc18.x86_64 other involved packages: python-libs-2.7.3-13.fc18.x86_64 package: anaconda-18.37.8-1.fc18.x86_64 product: Fedora release: Fedora release 18 (Spherical Cow) type: libreport version: 18
Created attachment 667892 [details] File: anaconda.log
Created attachment 667893 [details] File: environ
Created attachment 667894 [details] File: ifcfg.log
Created attachment 667895 [details] File: messages
Created attachment 667896 [details] File: packaging.log
Created attachment 667897 [details] File: program.log
Created attachment 667898 [details] File: anaconda-tb
Created attachment 667899 [details] File: storage.log
Immediately after the crash, relaunched anaconda and tried again with the same steps as above. No crash this time, installation commences.
*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of bug 896635 ***