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Bug 884701 - regression: F18 anaconda defaults to VG name "fedora" instead of "vg_<hostname>"
Summary: regression: F18 anaconda defaults to VG name "fedora" instead of "vg_<hostname>"
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Status: CLOSED WONTFIX
Alias: None
Product: Fedora
Classification: Fedora
Component: anaconda
Version: 18
Hardware: Unspecified
OS: Unspecified
unspecified
unspecified
Target Milestone: ---
Assignee: Richard W.M. Jones
QA Contact: Fedora Extras Quality Assurance
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Depends On: 856456
Blocks:
TreeView+ depends on / blocked
 
Reported: 2012-12-06 15:26 UTC by Richard W.M. Jones
Modified: 2014-02-05 22:54 UTC (History)
6 users (show)

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Last Closed: 2014-02-05 22:54:28 UTC
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Description Richard W.M. Jones 2012-12-06 15:26:46 UTC 
Description of problem:

F18 anaconda uses "fedora" as the volume group name.  This is
a regression to the bad old days of "VolGroup00".  The reason
this was changed to use something unique(-ish) like vg_<hostname>
was so that you wouldn't end up with multiple virtual machines
on a single host all having the same volume group name (which
causes problems with LVM).

(Obviously people should use libguestfs to solve this, but
for some reason people don't do that ...)

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

Fedora 18 beta.

Additional info:

The original bug was:
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=461682
"lvm volume group names are too generic"

The fix was:
http://git.fedorahosted.org/cgit/anaconda.git/commit/?id=0b41f2deb4e22172c6219338d5c33aed033c3133

The new code is quite different (see pyanaconda/storage/__init__.py:
newVG) and appears to try to use the hostname, but presumably
that's failing because the hostname is never set at this
point?  (In fact, Anaconda never asked me for the hostname when
I installed the OS -- I had to set it myself manually afterwards).
Comment 1 David Lehman 2012-12-06 16:47:56 UTC 

*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of bug 870921 ***
Comment 2 Richard W.M. Jones 2012-12-07 08:27:00 UTC 
Reopen so I can check this has really been fixed when
the dependent bug is fixed.
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