F8 rawhide, error from method.py during kickstart install from cdrom

[Martin Steinmann]

F8 RAWHIDE updated. I get the following error from anaconda doing a kickstart install from cdrom:

File "/usr/lib/python2.5/site-packages/pykickstart/commands/method.py", line 81, in parse
   (opts, extra) = op.parse_args(args=args)
AttributeError: 'NoneType' object has no attribute 'parse_args'
install exited abnormally [1/1]

This happens right after anaconda started the X server.

The kickstart file used looks fairly straight forward. Could this be a known error?
thanks
--martin

ks.cfg:
#--- Installation method (install, no upgrade) and source (CD-ROM)
install
cdrom

#--- Debugging (uncomment next line to debug in the interactive mode)
#interactive

#--- Language and input support
lang en_US.UTF-8
##langsupport --default=en_US.UTF-8 en_US.UTF-8
keyboard us
##mouse generic3ps/2

#--- X-Windows (use "skipx" directive to skip X-Windows configuration)
skipx

#--- Network configuration
# Add some default or else Anaconda will pop a window and ask
network --device eth0 --bootproto static --ip 192.168.1.176 --netmask 255.255.255.0 --gateway 192.168.1.1 --nameserver 192.168.1.145 --hostname sipx.example.com

#--- Authentication and security
rootpw setup
firewall --disabled
selinux --disabled
authconfig --enableshadow --enablemd5

#--- Time zone
timezone America/New_York

#--- Boot loader
bootloader --location=mbr

#--- Partitioning
#--- NON_RAID Disk partitioning (LVM)
zerombr yes
clearpart --all --initlabel
part /boot --fstype ext3 --size=128
part swap --size=1024
part /recovery --fstype ext3 --size=1024
part / --fstype ext3 --size=4096
part /var --fstype ext3 --size 1 --grow

#--- Reboot the host after installation is done
reboot

#--- Package selection
%packages --resolvedeps
e2fsprogs
<snip>

[Joel Andres Granados]

Martin Steinmann wrote:
> F8 RAWHIDE updated. I get the following error from anaconda doing a kickstart install from cdrom:
>
> File "/usr/lib/python2.5/site-packages/pykickstart/commands/method.py", line 81, in parse
>    (opts, extra) = op.parse_args(args=args)
> AttributeError: 'NoneType' object has no attribute 'parse_args'
> install exited abnormally [1/1]
>
> This happens right after anaconda started the X server.
>
> The kickstart file used looks fairly straight forward. Could this be a known error?
> thanks
> --martin
>
> ks.cfg:
> #--- Installation method (install, no upgrade) and source (CD-ROM)
> install
> cdrom
>
> #--- Debugging (uncomment next line to debug in the interactive mode)
> #interactive
>
> #--- Language and input support
> lang en_US.UTF-8
> ##langsupport --default=en_US.UTF-8 en_US.UTF-8
> keyboard us
> ##mouse generic3ps/2
>
> #--- X-Windows (use "skipx" directive to skip X-Windows configuration)
> skipx
>
> #--- Network configuration
> # Add some default or else Anaconda will pop a window and ask
> network --device eth0 --bootproto static --ip 192.168.1.176 --netmask 255.255.255.0 --gateway 192.168.1.1 --nameserver 192.168.1.145 --hostname sipx.example.com
>
> #--- Authentication and security
> rootpw setup
> firewall --disabled
> selinux --disabled
> authconfig --enableshadow --enablemd5
>
> #--- Time zone
> timezone America/New_York
>
> #--- Boot loader
> bootloader --location=mbr
>
> #--- Partitioning
> #--- NON_RAID Disk partitioning (LVM)
> zerombr yes
> clearpart --all --initlabel
> part /boot --fstype ext3 --size=128
> part swap --size=1024
> part /recovery --fstype ext3 --size=1024
> part / --fstype ext3 --size=4096
> part /var --fstype ext3 --size 1 --grow
>
> #--- Reboot the host after installation is done
> reboot
>
> #--- Package selection
> %packages --resolvedeps
> e2fsprogs
>
> <snip>
>
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might want to discuss this on the anaconda-devel list.
[e-mail].

[floyd smith]

I get the exact same error with CDROM install using even a much simpler 
kickstart file with both graphfical and text install. Have you found any 
solution? Any help will be greatly appreciated. I have even tried the anaconda 
generated one as well as the a simple one from the kickstart generator tool.

Floyd,

[Jeroen van Meeuwen]

floyd smith wrote:
> I get the exact same error with CDROM install using even a much simpler 
> kickstart file with both graphfical and text install. Have you found any 
> solution? Any help will be greatly appreciated. I have even tried the anaconda 
> generated one as well as the a simple one from the kickstart generator tool.

The Fedora Unity Re-Spin oughta solve this; it is available for testing 
only currently, but the more testers check off an item of our testing 
matrix to ensure there is no regression compared to the original Fedora 
8 installation media, the faster all items are checked off and we can 
release it for real.

Check out http://spins.fedoraunity.org/, register and drop a mail on 
[e-mail] to get the appropriate access. You would 
download the Re-Spin, continue to do what it is you normally do with it 
and then give us some feedback as to what are the results. Should be 
fairly painless ;-)

Thank you in advance,

Kind regards,

Jeroen van Meeuwen
-kanarip