- RHEL 7.2 installation over kickstart fails with existing mdadm raid array

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Issue

RHEL 7.2 installation over kickstart fails with existing mdadm raid array.

The installation fails with the following information


Setting up the installation environment . ** (anaconda:2174): WARNING **: Could not open X display An unknown error has occured, look at the /tmp/anaconda-tb* file(s) for more details =============================================================================== An unknown error has occurred =============================================================================== anaconda 21.48.22.56-1 exception report Traceback (most recent call first): File "/tmp/updates/blivet/devicelibs/mdraid.py", line 249, in mddeactivate raise MDRaidError("mddeactivate failed for %s: %s" % (device, msg)) File "/tmp/updates/blivet/devices/md.py", line 512, in teardown mdraid.mddeactivate(self.path) File "/tmp/updates/blivet/devices/storage.py", line 512, in _preDestroy self.teardown() File "/tmp/updates/blivet/devices/storage.py", line 521, in destroy self._preDestroy() File "/tmp/updates/blivet/deviceaction.py", line 344, in execute self.device.destroy() File "/tmp/updates/blivet/devicetree.py", line 377, in processActions action.execute(callbacks) File "/tmp/updates/blivet/__init__.py", line 374, in doIt self.devicetree.processActions(callbacks) File "/tmp/updates/blivet/__init__.py", line 224, in turnOnFilesystems storage.doIt(callbacks) File "/usr/lib64/python2.7/site-packages/pyanaconda/install.py", line 186, in doInstall turnOnFilesystems(storage, mountOnly=flags.flags.dirInstall, callbacks=callbacks_reg) 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 227, in run threading.Thread.run(self, *args, **kwargs) MDRaidError: mddeactivate failed for /dev/md/1: 1 What do you want to do now? 1) Report Bug 2) Debug 3) Quit

Environment

  • Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7.2
  • Installation over kickstart with multiple LV's on a Raid 1 md array.

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