Description of problem: Booted Fedora 42 KDE Edition BETA in a virtual machine on VMWare Workstation 17 Pro. Opened the installer, used the default configuration for the vm, acocunt creation and disk partition. The installer crashed at installing boot loader. Version-Release number of selected component: anaconda-core-42.27.3-1.fc42.x86_64 The following was filed automatically by anaconda: anaconda 42.27.3 exception report Traceback (most recent call first): File "/usr/lib/python3.13/site-packages/dasbus/client/handler.py", line 509, in _handle_method_error raise exception from None File "/usr/lib/python3.13/site-packages/dasbus/client/handler.py", line 483, in _get_method_reply return self._handle_method_error(error) File "/usr/lib/python3.13/site-packages/dasbus/client/handler.py", line 450, in _call_method return self._get_method_reply( File "/usr/lib64/python3.13/site-packages/pyanaconda/modules/common/task/__init__.py", line 53, in sync_run_task task_proxy.Finish() File "/usr/lib64/python3.13/site-packages/pyanaconda/installation.py", line 520, in run_install_bootloader sync_run_task(STORAGE.get_proxy(task)) File "/usr/lib64/python3.13/site-packages/pyanaconda/installation_tasks.py", line 267, in _run self._task_cb(*self._task_args, **self._task_kwargs) File "/usr/lib64/python3.13/site-packages/pyanaconda/installation_tasks.py", line 81, in start self._run() File "/usr/lib64/python3.13/site-packages/pyanaconda/installation_tasks.py", line 209, in _run item.start() File "/usr/lib64/python3.13/site-packages/pyanaconda/installation_tasks.py", line 81, in start self._run() File "/usr/lib64/python3.13/site-packages/pyanaconda/installation_tasks.py", line 209, in _run item.start() File "/usr/lib64/python3.13/site-packages/pyanaconda/installation_tasks.py", line 81, in start self._run() File "/usr/lib64/python3.13/site-packages/pyanaconda/installation_tasks.py", line 209, in _run item.start() File "/usr/lib64/python3.13/site-packages/pyanaconda/installation_tasks.py", line 81, in start self._run() File "/usr/lib64/python3.13/site-packages/pyanaconda/installation.py", line 598, in _run_installation queue.start() File "/usr/lib64/python3.13/site-packages/pyanaconda/installation.py", line 111, in run self._run_installation( File "/usr/lib64/python3.13/site-packages/pyanaconda/modules/common/task/task.py", line 110, in _task_run_callback self._set_result(self.run()) File "/usr/lib64/python3.13/site-packages/pyanaconda/modules/common/task/task.py", line 97, in _thread_run_callback self._task_run_callback() File "/usr/lib64/python3.13/threading.py", line 992, in run self._target(*self._args, **self._kwargs) File "/usr/lib64/python3.13/site-packages/pyanaconda/core/threads.py", line 281, in run threading.Thread.run(self) File "/usr/lib64/python3.13/site-packages/pyanaconda/core/threads.py", line 172, in raise_if_error raise exc_info[1] File "/usr/lib64/python3.13/site-packages/pyanaconda/modules/common/task/task.py", line 176, in finish thread_manager.raise_if_error(self._thread_name) File "/usr/lib64/python3.13/site-packages/pyanaconda/ui/gui/spokes/installation_progress.py", line 76, in _on_installation_done self._task.finish() File "/usr/lib64/python3.13/site-packages/pyanaconda/core/signal.py", line 41, in emit func(obj, *args, **kargs) File "/usr/lib64/python3.13/site-packages/pyanaconda/modules/common/task/runnable.py", line 115, in _task_stopped_callback self._stopped_signal.emit() File "/usr/lib64/python3.13/site-packages/pyanaconda/core/async_utils.py", line 69, in _idle_method func(*args, **kwargs) pyanaconda.modules.common.errors.general.AnacondaError: [Errno 2] No such file or directory: 'systemd-machine-id-setup' Additional info: comment: Booted Fedora 42 KDE Edition BETA in a virtual machine on VMWare Workstation 17 Pro. Opened the installer, used the default configuration for the vm, acocunt creation and disk partition. The installer crashed at installing boot loader. cmdline: /usr/bin/python3 /sbin/anaconda --liveinst --graphical executable: /sbin/anaconda hashmarkername: anaconda product: Fedora package: anaconda-core-42.27.3-1.fc42.x86_64 reason: pyanaconda.modules.common.errors.general.AnacondaError: [Errno 2] No such file or directory: 'systemd-machine-id-setup' release_type: pre-release type: anaconda release: Fedora release 42 (Adams) cmdline_file: BOOT_IMAGE=(cd0)/boot/x86_64/loader/linux quiet rhgb root=live:CDLABEL=Fedora-KDE-Live-42 rd.live.image rd.live.check addons: com_redhat_kdump kernel: 6.14.0-0.rc3.29.fc42.x86_64 version: 42 other involved packages: python3-libs-3.13.2-2.fc42.x86_64, python3-dasbus-1.7-9.fc42.noarch, anaconda-gui-42.27.3-1.fc42.x86_64 Potential duplicate: bug 2212602
Created attachment 2081212 [details] File: anaconda-tb
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Created attachment 2081217 [details] File: description
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Created attachment 2081221 [details] File: nmcli_dev_list
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Created attachment 2081224 [details] File: dbus.log
Created attachment 2081225 [details] File: packaging.log
So looking at the error: pyanaconda.modules.common.errors.general.AnacondaError: [Errno 2] No such file or directory: 'systemd-machine-id-setup' while a bit confusing, what it means is that Anaconda tried to run the systemd-machine-id-setup binary in the installed system chroot nad failed to find it. This being basically the first binary Anaconda tries to run in the chroot after the target system rootfs has been installed usully indicates that the installation somehow failed or that the content Anaconda tried to install was corrupted. We use rsync for the rootfs deployment & that indeed indicates something went wrong: Mar 21 14:17:49 localhost-live org.fedoraproject.Anaconda.Modules.Payloads[3425]: INFO:program:Running... rsync -pogAXtlHrDx --stats --info=flist2,name,progress2 --no-inc-recursive --exclude /dev/ --exclude /proc/ --exclude /tmp/* --exclude /sys/ --exclude /run/ --exclude /boot/*rescue* --exclude /boot/loader/ --exclude /boot/efi/ --exclude /etc/machine-id --exclude /etc/machine-info /run/install/sources/mount-0000-live_os_image/ /mnt/sysroot Mar 21 14:17:50 localhost-live org.fedoraproject.Anaconda.Modules.Payloads[3425]: DEBUG:anaconda.modules.payloads.payload.live_image.installation:rsync progress: 100% Mar 21 14:17:50 localhost-live org.fedoraproject.Anaconda.Modules.Payloads[3425]: DEBUG:anaconda.modules.payloads.payload.live_image.installation:rsync output: Number of files: 1 (dir: 1) Mar 21 14:17:50 localhost-live org.fedoraproject.Anaconda.Modules.Payloads[3425]: DEBUG:anaconda.modules.payloads.payload.live_image.installation:rsync output: Number of created files: 0 Mar 21 14:17:50 localhost-live org.fedoraproject.Anaconda.Modules.Payloads[3425]: DEBUG:anaconda.modules.payloads.payload.live_image.installation:rsync output: Number of deleted files: 0 Mar 21 14:17:50 localhost-live org.fedoraproject.Anaconda.Modules.Payloads[3425]: DEBUG:anaconda.modules.payloads.payload.live_image.installation:rsync output: Number of regular files transferred: 0 Mar 21 14:17:50 localhost-live org.fedoraproject.Anaconda.Modules.Payloads[3425]: DEBUG:anaconda.modules.payloads.payload.live_image.installation:rsync output: Total file size: 0 bytes Mar 21 14:17:50 localhost-live org.fedoraproject.Anaconda.Modules.Payloads[3425]: DEBUG:anaconda.modules.payloads.payload.live_image.installation:rsync output: Total transferred file size: 0 bytes Mar 21 14:17:50 localhost-live org.fedoraproject.Anaconda.Modules.Payloads[3425]: DEBUG:anaconda.modules.payloads.payload.live_image.installation:rsync output: Literal data: 0 bytes Mar 21 14:17:50 localhost-live org.fedoraproject.Anaconda.Modules.Payloads[3425]: DEBUG:anaconda.modules.payloads.payload.live_image.installation:rsync output: Matched data: 0 bytes Mar 21 14:17:50 localhost-live org.fedoraproject.Anaconda.Modules.Payloads[3425]: DEBUG:anaconda.modules.payloads.payload.live_image.installation:rsync output: File list size: 0 Mar 21 14:17:50 localhost-live org.fedoraproject.Anaconda.Modules.Payloads[3425]: DEBUG:anaconda.modules.payloads.payload.live_image.installation:rsync output: File list generation time: 0.001 seconds Mar 21 14:17:50 localhost-live org.fedoraproject.Anaconda.Modules.Payloads[3425]: DEBUG:anaconda.modules.payloads.payload.live_image.installation:rsync output: File list transfer time: 0.000 seconds Mar 21 14:17:50 localhost-live org.fedoraproject.Anaconda.Modules.Payloads[3425]: DEBUG:anaconda.modules.payloads.payload.live_image.installation:rsync output: Total bytes sent: 132 Mar 21 14:17:50 localhost-live org.fedoraproject.Anaconda.Modules.Payloads[3425]: DEBUG:anaconda.modules.payloads.payload.live_image.installation:rsync output: Total bytes received: 21 Mar 21 14:17:50 localhost-live org.fedoraproject.Anaconda.Modules.Payloads[3425]: DEBUG:anaconda.modules.payloads.payload.live_image.installation:rsync output: sent 132 bytes received 21 bytes 102.00 bytes/sec Mar 21 14:17:50 localhost-live org.fedoraproject.Anaconda.Modules.Payloads[3425]: DEBUG:anaconda.modules.payloads.payload.live_image.installation:rsync output: total size is 0 speedup is 0.00 Basically nothing was transferred, indicating most likely a corrupted installation image - not enough not to boot, but enough for the payload not been installable. I suggest redownloading the image & checking its checksum before booting it. There should be also an option to verify the checksum from the boot menu.
*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of bug 1963778 ***