Why does the Kickstart Installation of Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6.5 halt with a traceback error "KeyError: '/dev/sda'" ?
Issue
- Why does the Kickstart Installation of Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6.5 halt with a traceback error "KeyError: '/dev/sda'" ?
- Here is the full
traceback.
00:51:12,187 CRITICAL: anaconda 13.21.215 exception report
Traceback (most recent call first):
File "/usr/lib/anaconda/storage/partitioning.py", line 1066, in allocatePartitions
disklabel = disklabels[_disk.path]
File "/usr/lib/anaconda/storage/partitioning.py", line 977, in doPartitioning
allocatePartitions(storage, disks, partitions, free)
File "/usr/lib/anaconda/storage/partitioning.py", line 274, in doAutoPartition
exclusiveDisks=exclusiveDisks)
File "/usr/lib/anaconda/dispatch.py", line 210, in moveStep
rc = stepFunc(self.anaconda)
File "/usr/lib/anaconda/dispatch.py", line 126, in gotoNext
self.moveStep()
File "/usr/lib/anaconda/dispatch.py", line 233, in currentStep
self.gotoNext()
File "/usr/lib/anaconda/text.py", line 602, in run
(step, instance) = anaconda.dispatch.currentStep()
File "/usr/bin/anaconda", line 1131, in <module>
anaconda.intf.run(anaconda)
KeyError: '/dev/sda'
Environment
- Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6.5
- Kickstart Installation.
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