Description of problem: Problem with predifined software raid array Version-Release number of selected component: anaconda-19.30.13-1 The following was filed automatically by anaconda: anaconda 19.30.13-1 exception report Traceback (most recent call first): File "/usr/lib/python2.7/site-packages/blivet/devicelibs/mdraid.py", line 278, in name_from_md_node raise MDRaidError("name_from_md_node(%s) failed" % node) File "/usr/lib/python2.7/site-packages/blivet/devicetree.py", line 2196, in resolveDevice md_name = devicelibs.mdraid.name_from_md_node(devspec[5:]) File "/usr/lib/python2.7/site-packages/blivet/__init__.py", line 2985, in parseFSTab options=options) File "/usr/lib/python2.7/site-packages/blivet/__init__.py", line 2908, in findExistingInstallations (mounts, swaps) = parseFSTab(devicetree, chroot=ROOT_PATH) File "/usr/lib/python2.7/site-packages/blivet/__init__.py", line 424, in reset self.roots = findExistingInstallations(self.devicetree) File "/usr/lib/python2.7/site-packages/blivet/__init__.py", line 144, in storageInitialize storage.reset() File "/usr/lib64/python2.7/threading.py", line 764, in run self.__target(*self.__args, **self.__kwargs) File "/usr/lib64/python2.7/site-packages/pyanaconda/threads.py", line 168, in run threading.Thread.run(self, *args, **kwargs) MDRaidError: name_from_md_node(md3) failed Additional info: cmdline: /usr/bin/python /sbin/anaconda cmdline_file: initrd=initrd.img inst.stage2=hd:UUID=2e45d8e4-3bac-4cac-955b-071039145131 rd.live.check quiet BOOT_IMAGE=vmlinuz executable: /sbin/anaconda hashmarkername: anaconda kernel: 3.9.5-301.fc19.x86_64 product: Fedora release: Cannot get release name. type: anaconda version: 19
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Weeks ago I was not successful with fc18 (anaconda not seeing the RAID space and reporting "not enough space to install"), since 1991 FC18 being the very first distro I was not successful to install (not able to find a 'trick' to bypass this glitch). On FC19 situation is even worth, "unknown error" is displayed shortly after presenting the screen to select the keyboard (but not having the time to click on "continue"), according my understanding of log displayed (console 3 and 4), anaconda was starting RAID array. It is worth to note on the very same hardware with the same predefined Soft RAID array, el6, magia-3, slackware-14.0 are installing without a problem.
It looks like you have an entry in an /etc/fstab that refers to some filesystem's block device as '/dev/md3'. This is causing problems because the md minor is not predictable during OS installation. You can either replace '/dev/md3' with an md array name, filesystem UUID or LABEL or you can comment out that line and any others like it prior to starting the installation. This really shouldn't be preventing you from completing an installation -- the parsing of the existing /etc/fstab is only to help identify which filesystems/devices are part of which linux installations on your system to make custom storage configuration a bit easier. I need to make this a non-fatal error.
FYI, /dev/md3 is the swap device (from a previous other distribution successful installation) I agree with you, it should be "Not fatal".
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Boot Fedora 19 DVD install from USB stick. The system has Fedora 18 installed and the disk layout is: /dev/sda is a windows disk /dev/sdb and /dev/sdc are used to form RAID1 devices First RAID 1 device is for /boot Second RAID 1 is for swap Third RAID 1 is for LVM lvm is used for loki_0-root for the root partition loki_0-home for the /home partition loki_0-var for the /var partition loki_0-virtdisks for the /var/lib/libvirt/images partition loki_0-vmware for an old virtual images partition loki_0-dvd as a scratch partition for video conversion loki_0-local for the /usr/local partition loki_0-Tmp as a scratch partition cmdline: /usr/bin/python /sbin/anaconda cmdline_file: initrd=initrd.img inst.stage2=hd:LABEL=Fedora\x2019\x20x86_64 debug BOOT_IMAGE=vmlinuz hashmarkername: anaconda kernel: 3.9.5-301.fc19.x86_64 package: anaconda-19.30.13-1 product: Fedora reason: MDRaidError: name_from_md_node(md125) failed release: Cannot get release name. version: 19
*** Bug 994231 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***
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