Bug 1689182

Summary: AttributeError: 'str' object has no attribute 'decode'
Product: Red Hat Enterprise Linux 8 Reporter: Leos Pol <lpol>
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: 8.1CC: jkonecny
Target Milestone: rc   
Target Release: 8.1   
Hardware: x86_64   
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File: anaconda-tb none

Description Leos Pol 2019-03-15 11:13:39 UTC
Description of problem:


Version-Release number of selected component:
anaconda-29.19.0.40

The following was filed automatically by anaconda:
anaconda 29.19.0.40 exception report
Traceback (most recent call first):
  File "/usr/lib64/python3.6/site-packages/pyanaconda/payload/__init__.py", line 1068, in <genexpr>
    unicode_fnames = (f.decode("utf-8") for f in hdr.filenames)
  File "/usr/lib64/python3.6/site-packages/pyanaconda/payload/__init__.py", line 1070, in <genexpr>
    files.extend((f.split("/")[-1][8:] for f in unicode_fnames
  File "/usr/lib64/python3.6/site-packages/pyanaconda/payload/__init__.py", line 1070, in kernelVersionList
    files.extend((f.split("/")[-1][8:] for f in unicode_fnames
  File "/usr/lib64/python3.6/site-packages/pyanaconda/bootloader.py", line 2606, in writeBootLoader
    kernel_versions = list(payload.kernelVersionList)
  File "/usr/lib64/python3.6/site-packages/pyanaconda/installation_tasks.py", line 438, in run_task
    self._task(*self._task_args, **self._task_kwargs)
  File "/usr/lib64/python3.6/site-packages/pyanaconda/installation_tasks.py", line 472, in start
    self.run_task()
  File "/usr/lib64/python3.6/site-packages/pyanaconda/installation_tasks.py", line 304, in start
    item.start()
  File "/usr/lib64/python3.6/site-packages/pyanaconda/installation_tasks.py", line 304, in start
    item.start()
  File "/usr/lib64/python3.6/site-packages/pyanaconda/installation.py", line 388, in doInstall
    installation_queue.start()
  File "/usr/lib64/python3.6/threading.py", line 864, in run
    self._target(*self._args, **self._kwargs)
  File "/usr/lib64/python3.6/site-packages/pyanaconda/threading.py", line 286, in run
    threading.Thread.run(self)
AttributeError: 'str' object has no attribute 'decode'

Additional info:
addons:         com_redhat_kdump, org_fedora_oscap
cmdline:        /usr/libexec/platform-python  /sbin/anaconda
cmdline_file:   BOOT_IMAGE=vmlinuz initrd=initrd.img inst.stage2=hd:LABEL=RHEL-8-1-0-BaseOS-x86_64  ks=cdrom:/ks.cfg net.ifnames=0
executable:     /sbin/anaconda
hashmarkername: anaconda
kernel:         4.18.0-80.1.el8.x86_64
product:        Red Hat Enterprise Linux 8
release:        Red Hat Enterprise Linux release 8.0 (Ootpa)
release_type:   pre-release
type:           anaconda
version:        8.0

Comment 1 Leos Pol 2019-03-15 11:13:41 UTC
Created attachment 1544422 [details]
File: anaconda-tb

Comment 2 Leos Pol 2019-03-15 11:15:54 UTC
I've tried to install RHEL-8.1.0-20190315.n.0 compose.

Comment 3 Jiri Konecny 2019-03-18 08:41:01 UTC
Hello,

Could you please provide other logs. You can find them in the /tmp/*.log.

Comment 12 Jiri Konecny 2019-03-20 09:00:41 UTC

*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of bug 1689909 ***