Anaconda crashes during partitioning with the error "TypeError: cannot concatenate 'str' and 'NoneType' objects", why ?
Issue
- Anaconda crashes while installing the machine with the following partitioning details.
zerombr
clearpart --all --initlabel
bootloader --driveorder=cciss/c0d0,sda
part /boot --size=250 --onbiosdisk=80
part / --size=1 --grow --onbiosdisk=80
- Anaconda crashes with an un-handled exception.
self.handler.handlers[cmd](cmdArgs)
File "/usr/lib/anaconda/kickstart.py", line 530, in doPartition
if not hds.has_key(pd.disk) and hds.has_key('mapper/'+pd.disk):
TypeError: cannot concatenate 'str' and 'NoneType' objects
install exited abnormally [1/1]
sending termination signals...done
Environment
- Red Hat Enterprise Linux (RHEL) 5
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