libreport version: 2.0.8 cmdline: /usr/bin/python /usr/sbin/anaconda executable: /usr/sbin/anaconda exnFileName: /tmp/anaconda-tb-2Q1z6a hashmarkername: anaconda kernel: 3.3.0-1.fc17.ppc64 other involved packages: product: Fedora reason: RuntimeError: Error running mkofboot: No such file or directory release: Cannot get release name. time: Do 05 Apr 2012 19:01:56 CEST version: 17 anaconda-tb-2Q1z6a: Text file, 428097 bytes description: :The following was filed automatically by anaconda: :anaconda 17.18 exception report :Traceback (most recent call first): : File "/usr/lib64/python2.7/site-packages/pyanaconda/iutil.py", line 181, in execWithRedirect : raise RuntimeError, errstr : File "/usr/lib64/python2.7/site-packages/pyanaconda/bootloader.py", line 1932, in install : root=ROOT_PATH) : File "/usr/lib64/python2.7/site-packages/pyanaconda/bootloader.py", line 1091, in write : self.install() : File "/usr/lib64/python2.7/site-packages/pyanaconda/bootloader.py", line 2344, in writeBootloader : anaconda.bootloader.write() : File "/usr/lib64/python2.7/site-packages/pyanaconda/dispatch.py", line 383, in dispatch : self.dir = self.steps[self.step].target(self.anaconda) : File "/usr/lib64/python2.7/site-packages/pyanaconda/text.py", line 507, in run : self.anaconda.dispatch.dispatch() : File "/usr/lib64/python2.7/site-packages/pyanaconda/dispatch.py", line 326, in run : self.anaconda.intf.run(self.anaconda) : File "/usr/sbin/anaconda", line 852, in <module> : anaconda.dispatch.run() :RuntimeError: Error running mkofboot: No such file or directory environ: :LANG=de_DE.UTF-8 :LC_NUMERIC=C :TERM=linux :XAUTHORITY=/root/.Xauthority :GLADEPATH=/tmp/updates/:/tmp/updates/data/ui/:ui/:/usr/share/anaconda/ui/:/usr/share/python-meh/ :SHLVL=0 :PYTHONPATH=/tmp/updates :LIBUSER_CONF=/tmp/libuser.FYXTni :LVM_SUPPRESS_FD_WARNINGS=1 :PWD=/ :MALLOC_PERTURB_=204 :GCONF_GLOBAL_LOCKS=1 :HOME=/tmp :PIXMAPPATH=/tmp/updates/pixmaps/:/tmp/updates/:/tmp/product/pixmaps/:/tmp/product/:pixmaps/:/usr/share/anaconda/pixmaps/:/usr/share/pixmaps/:/usr/share/anaconda/:/usr/share/python-meh/:/usr/share/icons/Fedora/48x48/apps/ :PATH=/usr/bin:/bin:/sbin:/usr/sbin:/mnt/sysimage/bin:/mnt/sysimage/usr/bin:/mnt/sysimage/usr/sbin:/mnt/sysimage/sbin:/sbin:/usr/sbin :MALLOC_CHECK_=2
Created attachment 575498 [details] File: anaconda-tb-2Q1z6a
yaboot provides mkofboot, it is a symlink to ybin, are either of those present? The yaboot.spec shows: /boot/efika.forth /sbin/ofpath /sbin/ybin /sbin/yabootconfig /sbin/mkofboot /usr/lib/yaboot/addnote /usr/lib/yaboot/ofboot /usr/lib/yaboot/yaboot /usr/lib/yaboot/yaboot.debug Are all of those there?
*** Bug 811972 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***
We've switched to grub2 on PPC, so yaboot shouldn't be installed at all. Grub2 works fine on IBM Power systems, it is just on PowerMac where this problem shows up due to the way the firmware works. I'll try to figure out what needs to be chenged in anaconda. It can be done, as I've had reports that even G4 machines can be booted with grub2.
I haven't seen this issue again for quite a while now, so we can safely assume that this has been fixed