Arm-image-installer created a duplicate "fedora" vg on my HOST system not on the SD card

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I this post, I explained an issue I was having with the arm-image-installer Aarch64 Fedora 30 on Raspberry Pi 3B+ dracut-initqueue timeout

The resulting SD card wouldn’t boot and now I know why. The arm-image-installer created a duplicate “fedora” volume group on my laptop (F30) NOT on the SD card. So when the card was attempted to be booted from in the rpi3b+ it couldn’t find the appropriate partitions and volume groups. Because they were on my laptop. Thankfully I did not reboot and I was able to trudge thru lv/vg commands to get rid of this duplicate VG using the “–select vg_uuid=” for most of them and using the uuid of the bogus vg.

This is the command used…

sudo arm-image-installer --image=Fedora-Server-30-1.2.aarch64.raw.xz --target=rpi3 --media=/dev/sde --resizefs

What concerns me is the harm using arm-image-installer could have caused me and my main system. For now I am going to stick with manually creating SD cards using the xzcat method and I would strongly suggest folks are kept away from using the arm-image-installer until we can replicate the issue and get a fix in place.

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I used arm-image-installer many times without any issue. Are you sure that /dev/sde is the SD card? I think yes.
If you think there is a bug, you can file it on bugzilla.redhat.com
Thanks

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Positive that /dev/sde was the correct device as I built it manually seconds later. And how a VG gets created on the host box where the tool was run is beyond me. I’m on freenode fedora-arm now and we were discussing possible ways to repeat or replicate this but unfortunately we havn’t been able to so far.

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