Description of problem: I tried to upgrade from Fedora 8 to Fedora 9 beta. Installation of all rpms went fine but anaconda crashed when installing the bootloader (grub). I clicked on the debug option and the console screen shows: TypeError: coercing to Unicode: need string or buffer, instance found before this I see bunch of messages - apparently a traceback: progress_gui.pu 80 gui.py 1267 Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable): Fedora 9 beta. How reproducible: Steps to Reproduce: 1. 2. 3. Actual results: Expected results: Additional info:
Can you attach the actual traceback you received?
Well, since this was during the installation, I could not print etc. I wrote down some more info. For gui.py the line was something like (I don't have more info on the previous lines - sorry): gui.py line 1267, in handleRenderCallback self.currentWindow.renderCallback() and after that appeared the TypeError:... below that was: /usr/lib/python2.5/posixpath.py(173)exists() -> return false and after this I got the "debugger prompt" By the way, the boot loader worked after this - although it was installed there before since this was an upgrade.
*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of 438830 ***