Description of problem: Installing Fedora 19 from Live KDE Spin Version-Release number of selected component: anaconda-19.30.13-1.fc19.x86_64 The following was filed automatically by anaconda: anaconda 19.30.13-1 exception report Traceback (most recent call first): File "/usr/lib64/python2.7/site-packages/pyanaconda/packaging/__init__.py", line 602, in _setDefaultBootTarget if ts.dbMatch("provides", 'service(graphical-login)').count() and \ File "/usr/lib64/python2.7/site-packages/pyanaconda/packaging/__init__.py", line 631, in postInstall self._setDefaultBootTarget() File "/usr/lib64/python2.7/site-packages/pyanaconda/packaging/livepayload.py", line 147, in postInstall super(LiveImagePayload, self).postInstall() File "/usr/lib64/python2.7/site-packages/pyanaconda/install.py", line 166, in doInstall payload.postInstall() File "/usr/lib64/python2.7/threading.py", line 764, in run self.__target(*self.__args, **self.__kwargs) File "/usr/lib64/python2.7/site-packages/pyanaconda/threads.py", line 168, in run threading.Thread.run(self, *args, **kwargs) error: rpmdb open failed Additional info: cmdline: /usr/bin/python /sbin/anaconda --liveinst --method=livecd:///dev/mapper/live-osimg-min --lang en_US.UTF-8 cmdline_file: initrd=initrd0.img root=live:CDLABEL=Fedora-Live-KDE-x86_64-19-1 rootfstype=auto ro rd.live.image quiet rhgb rd.luks=0 rd.md=0 rd.dm=0 BOOT_IMAGE=vmlinuz0 executable: /sbin/anaconda hashmarkername: anaconda kernel: 3.9.5-301.fc19.x86_64 other involved packages: python-libs-2.7.5-1.fc19.x86_64 product: Fedora release: Fedora release 19 (Schrödinger’s Cat) type: anaconda version: 19 Potential duplicate: bug 868755
Created attachment 789638 [details] File: anaconda-tb
Created attachment 789639 [details] File: anaconda.log
Created attachment 789640 [details] File: environ
Created attachment 789641 [details] File: lsblk_output
Created attachment 789642 [details] File: messages
Created attachment 789643 [details] File: nmcli_dev_list
Created attachment 789644 [details] File: os_info
Created attachment 789645 [details] File: program.log
Created attachment 789646 [details] File: storage.log
Created attachment 789647 [details] File: ifcfg.log
Created attachment 789648 [details] File: packaging.log
Snippet from attached program.log: ... 10:28:00,778 INFO program: Running... rsync -pogAXtlHrDx --exclude /dev/ --exclude /proc/ --exclude /sys/ --exclude /run/ /mnt/install/source/ /mnt/sysimage 10:37:56,276 INFO program: cannot delete non-empty directory: var/run 10:37:56,277 INFO program: could not make way for new symlink: var/run 10:37:56,277 INFO program: rsync: rsync_xal_set: lremovexattr(""/mnt/sysimage/var/cache/yum"","security.selinux") failed: Permission denied (13) 10:37:56,278 INFO program: rsync: rsync_xal_set: lremovexattr(""/mnt/sysimage/var/lib/nfs/rpc_pipefs"","security.selinux") failed: Permission denied (13) 10:37:56,278 INFO program: rsync error: some files/attrs were not transferred (see previous errors) (code 23) at main.c(1052) [sender=3.0.9] 10:37:56,278 DEBUG program: Return code: 23 ...
Does this problem still occur with F20? It looks like something wrote to /mnt/sysimage/var/run after the installation destination was mounted but before the payload install started. If this occurs again, can you tell us what is in /mnt/sysimage/var/run?