Description of problem: I am fiddling with the kickstart file last thing I changed before the reinstall that crashed was expanding %packages section with group names and lines starting with # not really sure what caused the problem I'll try to reproduce the problem. 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 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
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the '@graphics' group in the local copy of the fedora repository is the cause of the crash in case you want to investigate the problem again I will rename the folder for reinvestigation meanwhile that I try to sync a different mirror
@graphics group is not present in F18 anymore! After some reading I switched from wget to rsync for the local mirror repo sync and use the provided repodata files instead of recreating them with createrepo. The wget/createrepo combination put all core repo files in a single directory and was in use from F8 till F16. In case you want to have have a look at the previous script in order to reproduce the problem, send me an e-mail, please. The downloaded files have been deleted already. Anyway, now there is no more crash and I get a proper error message "@graphics group is not present". I am closing this bug :)