Description of problem: Booted F19 TC3 netinst. I saw already this problem once in a VM, but it's hard to reproduce, probably some race condition. The following was filed automatically by anaconda: anaconda 19.30.5-1 exception report Traceback (most recent call first): File "/usr/lib/python2.7/site-packages/babel/localedata.py", line 111, in load fileobj.close() File "/usr/lib/python2.7/site-packages/babel/core.py", line 231, in _data self.__data = localedata.LocaleDataDict(localedata.load(str(self))) File "/usr/lib/python2.7/site-packages/babel/core.py", line 293, in languages return self._data['languages'] File "/usr/lib/python2.7/site-packages/babel/core.py", line 250, in get_display_name retval = locale.languages.get(self.language) File "/usr/lib/python2.7/site-packages/babel/core.py", line 278, in english_name return self.get_display_name(Locale('en')) File "/usr/lib/python2.7/site-packages/pyanaconda/localization.py", line 87, in english_name return self._localedata.english_name or u'' File "/usr/lib/python2.7/site-packages/pyanaconda/ui/gui/spokes/welcome.py", line 177, in initialize trans.english_name, trans.short_name) File "/usr/lib/python2.7/site-packages/pyanaconda/ui/gui/__init__.py", line 367, in run self._currentAction.initialize() File "/sbin/anaconda", line 1087, in <module> anaconda._intf.run() IOError: [Errno 9] Bad file descriptor Version-Release number of selected component: anaconda-19.30.5-1 Additional info: reporter: libreport-2.1.4 cmdline: /usr/bin/python /sbin/anaconda cmdline_file: initrd=initrd.img inst.stage2=hd:UUID=367b7403-8a9d-478b-9ad3-7f4cdbc58716 systemd.log_level=debug systemd.log_target=ksmg log_buf_len=1M BOOT_IMAGE=vmlinuz executable: /sbin/anaconda hashmarkername: anaconda kernel: 3.9.4-301.fc19.i686 product: Fedora release: Cannot get release name. type: anaconda version: 19-TC3 Truncated backtrace: Traceback (most recent call last): File "/sbin/anaconda", line 1087, in <module> anaconda._intf.run() File "/usr/lib/python2.7/site-packages/pyanaconda/ui/gui/__init__.py", line 367, in run self._currentAction.initialize() File "/usr/lib/python2.7/site-packages/pyanaconda/ui/gui/spokes/welcome.py", line 177, in initialize trans.english_name, trans.short_name) File "/usr/lib/python2.7/site-packages/pyanaconda/localization.py", line 87, in english_name return self._localedata.english_name or u'' File "/usr/lib/python2.7/site-packages/babel/core.py", line 278, in english_name return self.get_display_name(Locale('en')) File "/usr/lib/python2.7/site-packages/babel/core.py", line 250, in get_display_name retval = locale.languages.get(self.language) File "/usr/lib/python2.7/site-packages/babel/core.py", line 293, in languages return self._data['languages'] File "/usr/lib/python2.7/site-packages/babel/core.py", line 231, in _data self.__data = localedata.LocaleDataDict(localedata.load(str(self))) File "/usr/lib/python2.7/site-packages/babel/localedata.py", line 111, in load fileobj.close() IOError: [Errno 9] Bad file descriptor
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This might be the same problem as in bug 974032 (which was then used for something else).
I saw this several more times, on the same machine, on subsequent boots. I believe it is somehow related to a slow NIC. The machine picks up network connection very slow, sometimes it's not up before Anaconda starts. I tried to disconnect the cable completely and boot it several times and I saw no error. However, then I reconnected the cable, booted several times, and the error hasn't re-appeared :/ It seems very racy.
*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of bug 963267 ***