Why does the kickstart installation of Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6.5 fails with message "Logical volume name already used in volume group" ?

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Issue

  • Installing Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6.5 using a kickstart file on Dell PowerEdge R620 machine.
  • While installing using kickstart, it fails with the following message.
The following error was found while parsing the kickstart
configuration file:
The following problem occurred on line 57 of the kickstart file:
Logical volume name already used in volume group volgroup00
  • Here is the partitioning information of kickstart file.
clearpart  --linux       --drives=sda
part /boot --fstype=ext4 --size=500
part pv.2  --grow        --size=1000
volgroup volgroup00            --pesize=4096 pv.2
logvol /     --fstype=ext4 --name=lvol1 --vgname=vg00 --size=12000
logvol swap  --fstype=swap --name=lvol2 --vgname=vg00 --size=8000
logvol /var  --fstype=ext4 --name=lvol3 --vgname=vg00 --size=12000
logvol /tmp  --fstype=ext4 --name=lvol4 --vgname=vg00 --size=4000
  • Why does the kickstart installation of Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6.5 fails with message "Logical volume name already used in volume group" ?

Environment

  • Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6.5

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