Description of problem: Get the following traceback doing a PXE/kickstart install (rest has scrolled off the screen): File "/usr/lib/python2.5/subprocess.py", line 593, in __init__ errread, errwrite) File "/usr/lib/python2.5/subprocess.py", line 1079, in _execute_child raise child_exception TypeError: coercing to Unicode: need string or buffer, NoneType found Last vt3 message: INFO: Running kickstart %%pre script(s) %pre script: #!/usr/bin/sh #Debugging set -x
Please attach the entire traceback message. It should still be on tty3 in its entirety, unless it's a really long traceback.
It's definitely from executing the %pre script - removing the %pre section allows it to proceed. There is no traceback logged on tty3, just the normal anaconda messages, last of which is the info message I mentioned above.
Can you attach your complete kickstart script?
Created attachment 161273 [details] kickstart script
Works in today's (20070814) rawhide.
Glad it works, because that was a truly bizarre bug and I wasn't getting much closer to figuring out what was going on.