Bug 438075

Summary: HDISO crash during Writing autokickstart
Product: [Fedora] Fedora Reporter: Warren Togami <wtogami>
Component: anacondaAssignee: Anaconda Maintenance Team <anaconda-maint-list>
Status: CLOSED RAWHIDE QA Contact: Fedora Extras Quality Assurance <extras-qa>
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Description Warren Togami 2008-03-18 21:37:26 UTC
I put netinst and Fedora-9-Beta-i386-DVD.iso onto my USB stick and tried a HDISO
install.  Picked /dev/sdb1 as the local disk to find the ISO.  Install proceeded
seemingly fine until post configuration:

19:40:08 INFO    : moving (1) to step writeksconfig
19:40:08 INFO    : Writing autokickstart file
19:40:08 CRITICAL: anaconda 11.4.0.54 exception report
Traceback (most recent call first):
  File "/usr/bin/anaconda", line 587, in writeMethodstr
    (method, partition, dir) = string.split(self._loaderMethodstr, ':')
  File "/usr/lib/anaconda/instdata.py", line 241, in writeKS
    self.anaconda.writeMethodstr(f)
  File "/usr/lib/anaconda/packages.py", line 76, in writeKSConfiguration
    anaconda.id.writeKS(fn)
  File "/usr/lib/anaconda/dispatch.py", line 208, in moveStep
    rc = stepFunc(self.anaconda)
  File "/usr/lib/anaconda/dispatch.py", line 131, in gotoNext
    self.moveStep()
  File "/usr/lib/anaconda/gui.py", line 1246, in nextClicked
    self.anaconda.dispatch.gotoNext()
  File "/usr/lib/anaconda/iw/progress_gui.py", line 80, in renderCallback
    self.intf.icw.nextClicked()
  File "/usr/lib/anaconda/gui.py", line 1267, in handleRenderCallback
    self.currentWindow.renderCallback()
ValueError: too many values to unpack

<clumens> 19:06:00 INFO    : Method = hd:/dev:vfat:/
<clumens> the hell?

Apparently this isn't normal?

Comment 1 Warren Togami 2008-03-18 21:39:16 UTC
Created attachment 298454 [details]
anaconda.log

Comment 2 Will Woods 2008-03-18 21:50:08 UTC
HD method strings are normally more like hd:/dev/sda2:/path/to/cdimages. 

See http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Anaconda/Options for details.

So yeah. Something is weird there.