Bug 1419945

Summary: Confusing error message in unattended installation if it cannot resolve deps
Product: Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7 Reporter: Jaroslav Škarvada <jskarvad>
Component: anacondaAssignee: Anaconda Maintenance Team <anaconda-maint-list>
Status: CLOSED DUPLICATE QA Contact: Release Test Team <release-test-team-automation>
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Version: 7.4CC: jkonecny, sbueno, tcerna
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Description Jaroslav Škarvada 2017-02-07 13:32:45 UTC 
Description of problem:
In unattended installation if it cannot resolve dep it shows confusing error message and switches to interactive mode.

Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable):
anaconda 21.48.22.93-1

How reproducible:
Always

Steps to Reproduce:
1. Try to install package in unattended installation mode which has unresolved dep

Actual results:
[!] Software selection (Source changed - please verify)

Expected results:
Some better error message

Additional info:
We have trouble with this behavior in Beaker jobs. It was hard to debug for us what's the real problem behind and it blocked unattended machine provisioning.
Comment 1 Jaroslav Škarvada 2017-02-07 14:04:30 UTC 
Created attachment 1248401 [details]
kickstart file

It seems the problem is tuned-profiles-nfv package which requires qemu-kvm-tools-rhe which is not available.
Comment 2 Jaroslav Škarvada 2017-02-07 14:04:51 UTC 
Created attachment 1248402 [details]
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Comment 3 Jaroslav Škarvada 2017-02-07 14:05:31 UTC 
Created attachment 1248403 [details]
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Comment 4 Jiri Konecny 2017-02-07 15:34:20 UTC 
Just a small note, this is not a non-interactive installation. To start non-interactive installation you need to set `cmdline` instead of `text` in a kickstart file, nevertheless you are right about the message.

The problem happens in "tui/spokes/software.py: checkSoftwareSelection()". We need to give user better message when exception DependencyError is raised. This exception is propagated to `status` property where it is processed as invalid transaction now.

Thank you for reporting this,
Jirka
Comment 5 Samantha N. Bueno 2017-02-08 09:11:22 UTC 
We'll be addressing this in 7.4. Duping to the approved bug.

*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of bug 979307 ***