checking for exclusive access and found busy partitions #1463
Description
Bug
Partitions in use on /dev/sda, Error: checking for exclusive access to /dev/sda
May 10 13:00:39 install-to-disk.sh[22377]: Executing coreos-installer with the following options: install -i /opt/openshift/master.ign /dev/sda
May 10 13:00:39 install-to-disk.sh[22407]: Downloading Fedora CoreOS stable x86_64 metal image (raw.xz) and signature
May 10 13:00:40 install-to-disk.sh[22407]: Partitions in use on /dev/sda:
May 10 13:00:40 install-to-disk.sh[22407]: /dev/sda3 mounted on /boot
May 10 13:00:40 install-to-disk.sh[22407]: /dev/sda4 mounted on /sysroot
May 10 13:00:40 install-to-disk.sh[22407]: Error: checking for exclusive access to /dev/sda
May 10 13:00:40 install-to-disk.sh[22407]: Caused by:
May 10 13:00:40 install-to-disk.sh[22407]: found busy partitions
May 10 13:00:40 systemd[1]: install-to-disk.service: Main process exited, code=exited, status=1/FAILURE
May 10 13:00:40 systemd[1]: install-to-disk.service: Failed with result 'exit-code'.
Target Operating System Version
Bare-metal server with 2 disks.
coreos-installer Version
v0.21
Expected Behavior
It should install single node OKD instance.
Actual Behavior
Installation fails on Error: checking for exclusive access
Reproduction Steps
In install-config.yaml:
bootstrapInPlace:
installationDisk: /dev/sda
Installation:
curl -L https://builds.coreos.fedoraproject.org/prod/streams/stable/builds/39.20231101.3.0/x86_64/fedora-coreos-39.20231101.3.0-metal.x86_64.raw.xz -o fcos-raw.xz
coreos-installer install -i bootstrap-in-place-for-live-iso.ign -f fcos-raw.xz --insecure /dev/sda
mdadm --stop /dev/md/* 2> /dev/null
mdadm --remove /dev/md* 2> /dev/null
mdadm --zero-superblock /dev/sda /dev/sdb 2> /dev/null
dd if=/dev/zero of=/dev/sda bs=1 count=64 seek=446 conv=notrunc 2> /dev/null
dd if=/dev/zero of=/dev/sdb bs=1 count=64 seek=446 conv=notrunc 2> /dev/null
wipefs -fa /dev/sd*
coreos-installer install -f fcos-live.iso --insecure /dev/sda
I also tried to install on /dev/sdb as: coreos-installer install -f fcos-live.iso --insecure /dev/sdb, but it fails with /dev/sda error again:
May 10 13:00:40 install-to-disk.sh[22407]: Partitions in use on /dev/sda:
May 10 13:00:40 install-to-disk.sh[22407]: /dev/sda3 mounted on /boot
May 10 13:00:40 install-to-disk.sh[22407]: /dev/sda4 mounted on /sysroot
May 10 13:00:40 install-to-disk.sh[22407]: Error: checking for exclusive access to /dev/sda
May 10 13:00:40 install-to-disk.sh[22407]: Caused by:
May 10 13:00:40 install-to-disk.sh[22407]: found busy partitions
P.S. before every installation that I tried, I run those wipefs and dd commands, i.e. lsblk shows nothing on both disks:
root@rescue ~ # lsblk -f
NAME FSTYPE FSVER LABEL UUID FSAVAIL FSUSE% MOUNTPOINT
loop0 ext2 1.0 829dea1e-3d91-47e9-bc8f-a7a4eab805f4
sda
sdb
Other Information
# cat /proc/mdstat
Personalities :
unused devices: <none>
# vgdisplay
# lvdisplay
# pvs
# pvdisplay
# ll /dev/sd*
brw-rw----. 1 root disk 8, 0 May 10 13:08 /dev/sda
brw-rw----. 1 root disk 8, 1 May 10 13:08 /dev/sda1
brw-rw----. 1 root disk 8, 2 May 10 13:08 /dev/sda2
brw-rw----. 1 root disk 8, 3 May 10 13:08 /dev/sda3
brw-rw----. 1 root disk 8, 4 May 10 13:08 /dev/sda4
brw-rw----. 1 root disk 8, 16 May 10 12:41 /dev/sdb
# lsblk -f
NAME FSTYPE FSVER LABEL UUID FSAVAIL FSUSE% MOUNTPOINTS
sda
├─sda1
├─sda2 vfat FAT16 EFI-SYSTEM D234-D8A2
├─sda3 ext4 1.0 boot 22458e48-d327-4629-8f7e-f78e01be05e5 121.2M 59% /boot
└─sda4 xfs root cb871e6c-2942-4653-9293-0b268ff48e7f 220.3G 5% /var/lib/containers/storage/overlay
/var
/sysroot/ostree/deploy/fedora-coreos/var
/usr
/etc
/
/sysroot
sdb