Bug 841566

Summary: RuntimeError: Error running virt-install: No such file or directory
Product: [Fedora] Fedora Reporter: Jan Stodola <jstodola>
Component: loraxAssignee: Brian Lane <bcl>
Status: CLOSED RAWHIDE QA Contact: Fedora Extras Quality Assurance <extras-qa>
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Fixed In Version: lorax-18.11-1 Doc Type: Bug Fix
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Last Closed: 2012-07-21 00:51:47 UTC Type: Bug
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Description Jan Stodola 2012-07-19 12:26:57 UTC
Description of problem:
Following traceback is shown when running livemedia-creator and python-virtinst is not installed:

[root@melfina live]# livemedia-creator --make-iso --iso live.iso --ks ks.cfg 
2012-07-19 04:11:19,995: disk_size = 1GB
2012-07-19 04:11:19,995: disk_img = /var/tmp/diskABJZvP.img
2012-07-19 04:11:19,995: install_log = /root/live/virt-install.log
Error running virt-install: No such file or directory
2012-07-19 04:11:20,031: Error running virt-install: No such file or directory
Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "/sbin/livemedia-creator", line 780, in <module>
    virtio_port = log_monitor.port )
  File "/sbin/livemedia-creator", line 300, in __init__
    rc = execWithRedirect( cmd[0], cmd[1:] )
  File "/usr/lib/python2.7/site-packages/pylorax/executils.py", line 163, in execWithRedirect
    raise RuntimeError, errstr
RuntimeError: Error running virt-install: No such file or directory


Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable):
lorax-17.26-1.fc17.x86_64

How reproducible:
always

Steps to Reproduce:
1. on a system with python-virtinst package not installed, run following:
livemedia-creator --make-iso --iso live.iso --ks ks.cfg
  
Actual results:
traceback

Expected results:
There should be a warning message describing what is missing, user should not see any traceback.