Description of problem: The installer crashed soon after starting up. It was running from a kickstart script. The following was filed automatically by anaconda: anaconda 18.37.11 exception report Traceback (most recent call first): File "/usr/lib64/python2.7/logging/__init__.py", line 328, in getMessage msg = msg % self.args File "/usr/lib64/python2.7/logging/__init__.py", line 464, in format record.message = record.getMessage() File "/usr/lib64/python2.7/logging/__init__.py", line 723, in format return fmt.format(record) File "/usr/lib64/python2.7/logging/handlers.py", line 791, in emit msg = self.format(record) + '\000' File "/usr/lib64/python2.7/site-packages/pyanaconda/anaconda_log.py", line 114, in emit SysLogHandler.emit(self, record) File "/usr/lib64/python2.7/logging/__init__.py", line 748, in handle self.emit(record) File "/usr/lib64/python2.7/logging/__init__.py", line 1308, in callHandlers hdlr.handle(record) File "/usr/lib64/python2.7/logging/__init__.py", line 1268, in handle self.callHandlers(record) File "/usr/lib64/python2.7/logging/__init__.py", line 1258, in _log self.handle(record) File "/usr/lib64/python2.7/logging/__init__.py", line 1184, in critical self._log(CRITICAL, msg, args, **kwargs) File "/usr/lib/python2.7/site-packages/yum/__init__.py", line 3693, in selectGroup self.logger.critical(_('Group %s does have %u conditional packages, which may get installed.'), count_cond_test) File "/usr/lib64/python2.7/site-packages/pyanaconda/packaging/yumpayload.py", line 1070, in _selectYumGroup self._yum.selectGroup(groupid, group_package_types=pkg_types) File "/usr/lib64/python2.7/site-packages/pyanaconda/packaging/yumpayload.py", line 1198, in _applyYumSelections self._selectYumGroup(group.name, default=default, optional=optional) File "/usr/lib64/python2.7/site-packages/pyanaconda/packaging/yumpayload.py", line 1229, in checkSoftwareSelection self._applyYumSelections() File "/usr/lib64/python2.7/site-packages/pyanaconda/packaging/yumpayload.py", line 1316, in preInstall self.checkSoftwareSelection() File "/usr/lib64/python2.7/site-packages/pyanaconda/install.py", line 124, in doInstall payload.preInstall(packages=packages, groups=payload.languageGroups(ksdata.lang.lang)) File "/usr/lib64/python2.7/threading.py", line 504, in run self.__target(*self.__args, **self.__kwargs) File "/usr/lib64/python2.7/site-packages/pyanaconda/threads.py", line 91, in run threading.Thread.run(self, *args, **kwargs) TypeError: not enough arguments for format string Additional info: cmdline: /usr/bin/python /sbin/anaconda cmdline_file: initrd=f18-x86_64/initrd.img repo=http://mirrors.cs.byu.edu/fedora/releases/18/Fedora/x86_64/os ks=http://aml.cs.byu.edu/install/f18.ks ksdevice=bootif biosdevname=0 sshd BOOTIF=01-22-22-22-22-22-22 BOOT_IMAGE=f18-x86_64/vmlinuz executable: /sbin/anaconda hashmarkername: anaconda kernel: 3.6.10-4.fc18.x86_64 other involved packages: package: anaconda-18.37.11 product: Fedora release: Cannot get release name. type: libreport version: 18
Created attachment 679116 [details] File: anaconda-tb
Created attachment 679117 [details] File: anaconda.log
Created attachment 679118 [details] File: environ
Created attachment 679119 [details] File: ifcfg.log
Created attachment 679120 [details] File: ks.cfg
Created attachment 679121 [details] File: packaging.log
Created attachment 679122 [details] File: program.log
Created attachment 679123 [details] File: storage.log
Created attachment 679124 [details] File: syslog
The crash occurred while the progress bar read "Starting package installation process". After rebooting and trying again, the same error occurred at the same point.
Note the line in the middle of the traceback: File "/usr/lib/python2.7/site-packages/yum/__init__.py", line 3693, in selectGroup self.logger.critical(_('Group %s does have %u conditional packages, which may get installed.'), count_cond_test)
I adjusted my package groups in response to Comment 11, and it looks like commenting out deprecated package groups may have helped to work around the issue. I haven't specifically tried adding them in one by one, but it might help anyone who's trying to reproduce the issue to add any of: base, graphical-internet, graphics, java, java-development, office, sound-and-video, system-tools, or text-internet, all of which are now commented out.
*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of bug 885139 ***