- RHEL 7.2 installation over kickstart fails with existing mdadm raid array
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
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** (anaconda:2174): WARNING **: Could not open X display
An unknown error has occured, look at the /tmp/anaconda-tb* file(s) for more details
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An unknown error has occurred
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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?
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Environment
- Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7.2
- Installation over kickstart with multiple LV's on a Raid 1 md array.
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