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Bug
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Resolution: Unresolved
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Normal
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None
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rhel-8.10, rhel-9.4
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None
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No
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Moderate
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rhel-sst-installer
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ssg_front_door
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None
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False
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Yes
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Red Hat Enterprise Linux
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None
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None
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None
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Unspecified Release Note Type - Unknown
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None
What were you trying to do that didn't work?
When enabling a service in the kickstart but the required package is not installed, this leads to getting a backtrace instead of proper error:
Kickstart excerpt:
services --enabled=autofs %packages @^minimal-environment @guest-agents kexec-tools %end
Result:
anaconda 34.25.4.9 exception report Traceback (most recent call first): File "/usr/lib/python3.9/site-packages/dasbus/client/handler.py", line 497, in _handle_method_error raise exception from None File "/usr/lib/python3.9/site-packages/dasbus/client/handler.py", line 477, in _get_method_reply return self._handle_method_error(error) File "/usr/lib/python3.9/site-packages/dasbus/client/handler.py", line 444, in _call_method return self._get_method_reply( File "/usr/lib64/python3.9/site-packages/pyanaconda/modules/common/task/__init__.py", line 47, in sync_run_task task_proxy.Finish() File "/usr/lib64/python3.9/site-packages/pyanaconda/installation_tasks.py", line 527, in run_task sync_run_task(self._task_proxy) File "/usr/lib64/python3.9/site-packages/pyanaconda/installation_tasks.py", line 496, in start self.run_task() File "/usr/lib64/python3.9/site-packages/pyanaconda/installation_tasks.py", line 311, in start item.start() File "/usr/lib64/python3.9/site-packages/pyanaconda/installation_tasks.py", line 311, in start item.start() File "/usr/lib64/python3.9/site-packages/pyanaconda/installation_tasks.py", line 311, in start item.start() File "/usr/lib64/python3.9/site-packages/pyanaconda/installation.py", line 399, in run_installation queue.start() File "/usr/lib64/python3.9/threading.py", line 917, in run self._target(*self._args, **self._kwargs) File "/usr/lib64/python3.9/site-packages/pyanaconda/threading.py", line 275, in run threading.Thread.run(self) dasbus.error.DBusError: Error enabling service autofs: 1
The real reason is of course there is no such autofs.service since the package was not marked for installation, this is burried into the logs and hard to detect:
09:56:55,754 WARNING org.fedoraproject.Anaconda.Modules.Services:INFO:program:Running... systemctl enable autofs --root /mnt/sysroot 09:56:55,760 WARNING org.fedoraproject.Anaconda.Modules.Services:INFO:program:Failed to enable unit, unit autofs.service does not exist. 09:56:55,760 WARNING org.fedoraproject.Anaconda.Modules.Services:DEBUG:program:Return code: 1
What is the impact of this issue to you?
Confusing message, hard to troubleshoot
Please provide the package NVR for which the bug is seen:
Anaconda on RHEL8 and RHEL9.4
How reproducible is this bug?:
Always, see above
