Why does RHEL7 installation fail with abrt error 'IOError [Errno 9] Bad file descriptor' ?
Issue
- Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7 installation is failing with the following
abrterror message.
anaconda 19.31.123-1 exception report
Traceback (most recent call first):
File "<string>", line 100, in next
File "/usr/lib/python2.7/site-packages/yum/comps.py", line 822, in add
for event, elem in parser:
File "/usr/lib/python2.7/site-packages/yum/__init__.py", line 964, in _getGroups
self._comps.add(groupfile)
File "/usr/lib/python2.7/site-packages/yum/__init__.py", line 1102, in <lambda>
comps = property(fget=lambda self: self._getGroups(),
File "/usr/lib/python2.7/site-packages/yum/__init__.py", line 3836, in selectGroup
thesegroups = self.comps.return_groups(grpid)
File "/usr/lib64/python2.7/site-packages/pyanaconda/packaging/yumpayload.py", line 1301, in _selectYumGroup
self._yum.selectGroup(groupid, group_package_types=pkg_types)
File "/usr/lib64/python2.7/site-packages/pyanaconda/packaging/yumpayload.py", line 1416, in _applyYumSelections
self._selectYumGroup("core")
File "/usr/lib64/python2.7/site-packages/pyanaconda/packaging/yumpayload.py", line 1520, in checkSoftwareSelection
self._applyYumSelections()
File "/usr/lib64/python2.7/site-packages/pyanaconda/ui/gui/spokes/software.py", line 123, in checkSoftwareSelection
self.payload.checkSoftwareSelection()
File "/usr/lib64/python2.7/threading.py", line 764, in run
self.__target(*self.__args, **self.__kwargs)
File "/usr/lib64/python2.7/site-packages/pyanaconda/threads.py", line 211, in run
threading.Thread.run(self, *args, **kwargs)
IOError: [Errno 9] Bad file descriptor
Environment
- Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7.1
anaconda
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