Red Hat Enterprise Linux 8 installation on s390x failed with gi.overrides.BlockDev.S390Error: Error checking status of device 0.0.0XXX; device may not exist, or status can not be read.
Issue
RHEL8
installation failed with the following error ons390x
environment.- In this environment,
SWAPGEN
was used for the DASD device 0.0.0101 inPROFILE.EXEC
.
anaconda 29.19.0.40 exception report
Traceback (most recent call first):
File "/usr/lib64/python3.6/site-packages/gi/overrides/BlockDev.py", line 993, in wrapped
raise transform[1](msg)
File "/usr/lib64/python3.6/site-packages/pyanaconda/format_dasd.py", line 89, in _is_unformatted_dasd
return self._is_dasd(disk) and blockdev.s390.dasd_needs_format(disk.busid)
File "/usr/lib64/python3.6/site-packages/pyanaconda/format_dasd.py", line 104, in _get_unformatted_dasds
if self._is_unformatted_dasd(disk):
File "/usr/lib64/python3.6/site-packages/pyanaconda/format_dasd.py", line 134, in search_disks
self._dasds = list(set(self._get_unformatted_dasds(disks) + self._get_ldl_dasds(disks)))
File "/usr/lib64/python3.6/site-packages/pyanaconda/format_dasd.py", line 195, in run_automatically
formatting.search_disks(disks)
File "/usr/lib64/python3.6/site-packages/pyanaconda/ui/tui/spokes/storage.py", line 508, in _initialize
DasdFormatting.run_automatically(self.storage, self.data)
File "/usr/lib64/python3.6/threading.py", line 864, in run
self._target(*self._args, **self._kwargs)
File "/usr/lib64/python3.6/site-packages/pyanaconda/threading.py", line 286, in run
threading.Thread.run(self)
gi.overrides.BlockDev.S390Error: Error checking status of device 0.0.0101; device may not exist, or status can not be read.\
Environment
Red Hat Enterprise Linux (RHEL) 8
s390x
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