Question about asking for help

Dan Horák dan at danny.cz
Tue Jan 29 21:39:28 UTC 2013


Robert Knight píše v Út 29. 01. 2013 v 15:50 -0500: 
> On 01/29/2013 12:59 PM, Dan Horák wrote:
> > Robert Knight píše v Út 29. 01. 2013 v 10:31 -0500:
> >> At this point, it just sits there forever.
> > seems my attempt ends with the same messages ...
> >
> So, I stuck a user "install" into that kickstart (f18-part.ks) so that I 
> could interact with the install.  While the logs to seem to show that 
> things ended successfully, on the installer screen, I see:
> 
> Traceback (most recent call last):
>    File "/usr/lib64/python2.7/site-packages/pyanaconda/threads.py", line 
> 91, in run
>      threading.Thread.run(self, *args, **kwargs)
>    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/install.py", line 
> 135, in doInstall
>      writeBootLoader(storage, payload, instClass, ksdata)
>    File "/usr/lib64/python2.7/site-packages/pyanaconda/bootloader.py", 
> line 2312, in writeBootLoader
>      storage.bootloader.write()
>    File "/usr/lib64/python2.7/site-packages/pyanaconda/bootloader.py", 
> line 952, in write
>      self.install()
>    File "/usr/lib64/python2.7/site-packages/pyanaconda/bootloader.py", 
> line 2070, in install
>      message = iutil.reIPL(self.stage1_name)
>    File "/usr/lib64/python2.7/site-packages/pyanaconda/iutil.py", line 
> 892, in reIPL
>      for disk in anaconda.storage.disks:
> NameError: global name 'anaconda' is not defined

hm, same problem as https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=904245
that I ascribed to the use of FBA disk originally, but got it today also
with CKD (all in Hercules). There seems to be a difference between real
iron and Hercules ...

> wherein it had tried a "chreipl" and it had failed.  I don't believe 
> there's more to do at this point.  lsreipl shows the expected device 
> already set up.  There are two more processes with /mnt/sysimage, one 
> being anaconda and the other bash.
> 
> I guess I'll try hacking the iutil.py file before things start...


Dan



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