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