blivet crashes if it cannot find partitions on a disk about blivet HOT 7 CLOSED

I think blivet should not crash even if it finds a possibly invalid disk configuration. Crashing the installer means I am not able to install Fedora.

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That's odd. parted says you don't have a partition table, it thinks the device is a loopback FAT16 filesystem.

Could you open a bug against parted at https://bugzilla.redhat.com and include the details you have here as well as the first 62 sectors of your disk? eg. output from:

dd if=/dev/sdb of=first62.bin count=62

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I filed a bug here: https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1288091

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Explanation is here - https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1288091#c1

Basically, parted can't handle this disk because of old FAT16 metadata on it.

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If think blivet should be still able to "work" even if it can't use/read one of the disks, we could hide it (or do the wipefs if user wants to) and allow changes on other disks.

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Agreed.

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This handling should be added to blivet-gui. It can catch UnusableConfigurationError and handle it however it wants. Blivet cannot make these decisions on its own and it does not have a user interface, so this is left to anaconda and blivet-gui.

If you want to ignore that disk completely, add it to ignored_disks before populating the DeviceTree.

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