RHEL 8 kickstart installation fails with "blivet.errros.DeviceFormatError: device path does not exist or is not writable"

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Issue

Kickstart installations fail with:

ERROR:anaconda.modules.common.task.task:Thread AnaTaskThread-ActivateFilesystemsTask-1 has failed: Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "/usr/lib64/python3.6/site-packages/pyanaconda/threading.py", line 280, in run
    threading.Thread.run(self)
  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/modules/common/task/task.py", line 97, in _task_run_callback
    self._set_result(self.run())
  File "/usr/lib64/python3.6/site-packages/pyanaconda/modules/storage/installation.py", line 94, in run
    raise StorageInstallationError(str(e)) from None
pyanaconda.modules.common.errors.installation.StorageInstallationError: device path does not exist or is not writable

Environment

Red Hat Enterprise Linux 8 installations

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