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Bug 568460 - Live installer doesn't recognize pre-existing logical volumes
Summary: Live installer doesn't recognize pre-existing logical volumes
Keywords:
Status: CLOSED RAWHIDE
Alias: None
Product: Fedora
Classification: Fedora
Component: anaconda
Version: 13
Hardware: All
OS: Linux
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medium
Target Milestone: ---
Assignee: David Lehman
QA Contact: Fedora Extras Quality Assurance
URL:
Whiteboard:
: 568556 572101 573223 (view as bug list)
Depends On:
Blocks:
TreeView+ depends on / blocked
 
Reported: 2010-02-25 18:50 UTC by James Laska
Modified: 2013-09-02 06:45 UTC (History)
7 users (show)

Fixed In Version:
Doc Type: Bug Fix
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Environment:
Last Closed: 2011-03-07 18:02:32 UTC
Type: ---
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Description James Laska 2010-02-25 18:50:56 UTC 
Created attachment 396357 [details]
Screenshot.png

Description of problem:

During a live install, my previous logical volumes are not available during the partition detail screen.

Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable):
 * anaconda-13.31

How reproducible:
 * I've confirmed this several times

Steps to Reproduce:
0. Install an OLD Fedora system using LVM (I originally formatted this system some time ago)
1. Boot live image
2. Proceed through install, select 'Custom partition'
  
Actual results:

See attached screenshot

Expected results:

My previous logical volumes should be available for use with install or as data partitions
Comment 1 James Laska 2010-02-25 18:52:02 UTC 
Created attachment 396358 [details]
log files.tgz

-rw------- root/root    161612 2010-02-25 08:23 var/log/messages
-rw-r--r-- root/root     42178 2010-02-25 13:01 var/log/dmesg
-rw-rw-r-- root/root      2605 2010-02-25 08:23 tmp/anaconda.log
-rw-rw-r-- root/root      8844 2010-02-25 08:23 tmp/program.log
-rw-rw-r-- root/root     98681 2010-02-25 08:23 tmp/storage.log
-rw-r--r-- root/root     20480 2010-02-25 13:05 tmp/storage.state
Comment 2 Steve Tyler 2010-02-26 00:03:08 UTC 
Confirming that this happened while booted off a live ISO image installed on a USB stick. The version of anaconda on the net install ISO *did* display the logical volumes (RC3).

In both cases, I chose a custom disk layout.

And a request: Could the serverbeach ISOs please have *exact* version numbers in their file names? "ls -l" and sha256sum aren't really ideal for distinguishing versions.

Version details:

[stephent@walnut fedora]$ ls -l F13-Alpha-i686-Live.iso
-rw-rw-r-- 1 stephent stephent 875560960 2010-02-25 09:28 F13-Alpha-i686-Live.iso
[stephent@walnut fedora]$ sha256sum F13-Alpha-i686-Live.iso
7623e48b2224e79c62ffade96a825942dba43a46b2c16c9a0c2acfa5b7cbccda  F13-Alpha-i686-Live.iso

[stephent@walnut fedora]$ ls -l Fedora-13-Alpha-i386-netinst.iso
-rw-rw-r-- 1 stephent stephent 246415360 2010-02-24 15:19 Fedora-13-Alpha-i386-netinst.iso
[stephent@walnut fedora]$ sha256sum Fedora-13-Alpha-i386-netinst.iso
a2799da3b8d4c8958b09a5a8394216397b9a3d14547803686b36d8fec07b8f1b  Fedora-13-Alpha-i386-netinst.iso
Comment 3 James Laska 2010-02-26 14:54:43 UTC 
Thanks Steve, I've also confirmed that when booting using a netinst.iso (or boot.iso), the installer recognizes pre-existing logical volumes.

This appears to be specific the the installer running in the LIVE environment.  Changing subject of bug to match updated test results.
Comment 4 Chris Lumens 2010-02-26 15:45:02 UTC 
*** Bug 568556 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***
Comment 5 Steve Tyler 2010-02-28 14:31:49 UTC 
This could be related:

Volume groups are not activated on the live ISO.
They can be activated with "Applications:System Tools:Disk Utility".

Activating them allows logical volumes to be mounted with "Places:Removable Media".

Also, "ls /dev/mapper" will show them.

However, when the installer is started they are deactivated.

[root@localhost liveuser]# vgchange -a y vg_pluto
  3 logical volume(s) in volume group "vg_pluto" now active
[root@localhost liveuser]# ls /dev/mapper
control         live-rw                 vg_pluto-lv_cedar_root
live-osimg-min  vg_pluto-lv_cedar_home  vg_pluto-lv_fir_root

# installer started here

[root@localhost liveuser]# ls /dev/mapper
control  live-osimg-min  live-rw
[root@localhost liveuser]#
Comment 6 Steve Tyler 2010-02-28 15:25:09 UTC 
(In reply to comment #5)

> Volume groups are not activated on the live ISO.

Correction: they are activated during booting -- boot messages say so.
And "ls /dev/mapper" confirms.
However, this exposes Bug 569174.
Comment 7 Hans de Goede 2010-03-01 10:13:46 UTC 
Dave Lehman has recently committed a patch fixing this, setting this in modified and assigning to Dave.
Comment 8 Chris Lumens 2010-03-10 14:32:01 UTC 
*** Bug 572101 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***
Comment 9 Chris Lumens 2010-03-15 14:55:34 UTC 
*** Bug 573223 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***
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