Hi all, I recently moved from Linux Mint to Fedora, and whilst trying to install, everything goes fine until the bootloader install. Anaconda throws a vague “unknown error” and crashes.
Important from logs:
anaconda 38.23.4 exception report
Traceback (most recent call first):
File "/usr/lib/python3.11/site-packages/dasbus/client/handler.py", line 509, in _handle_method_error
raise exception from None
File "/usr/lib/python3.11/site-packages/dasbus/client/handler.py", line 483, in _get_method_reply
return self._handle_method_error(error)
File "/usr/lib/python3.11/site-packages/dasbus/client/handler.py", line 450, in _call_method
return self._get_method_reply(
File "/usr/lib64/python3.11/site-packages/pyanaconda/modules/common/task/__init__.py", line 46, in sync_run_task
task_proxy.Finish()
File "/usr/lib64/python3.11/site-packages/pyanaconda/installation.py", line 439, in run_install_bootloader
sync_run_task(STORAGE.get_proxy(task))
File "/usr/lib64/python3.11/site-packages/pyanaconda/installation_tasks.py", line 246, in _run
self._task_cb(*self._task_args, **self._task_kwargs)
File "/usr/lib64/python3.11/site-packages/pyanaconda/installation_tasks.py", line 75, in start
self._run()
File "/usr/lib64/python3.11/site-packages/pyanaconda/installation_tasks.py", line 188, in _run
item.start()
File "/usr/lib64/python3.11/site-packages/pyanaconda/installation_tasks.py", line 75, in start
self._run()
File "/usr/lib64/python3.11/site-packages/pyanaconda/installation_tasks.py", line 188, in _run
item.start()
File "/usr/lib64/python3.11/site-packages/pyanaconda/installation_tasks.py", line 75, in start
self._run()
File "/usr/lib64/python3.11/site-packages/pyanaconda/installation_tasks.py", line 188, in _run
item.start()
File "/usr/lib64/python3.11/site-packages/pyanaconda/installation_tasks.py", line 75, in start
self._run()
File "/usr/lib64/python3.11/site-packages/pyanaconda/installation.py", line 515, in _run_installation
queue.start()
File "/usr/lib64/python3.11/site-packages/pyanaconda/installation.py", line 80, in run
self._run_installation(
File "/usr/lib64/python3.11/site-packages/pyanaconda/modules/common/task/task.py", line 109, in _task_run_callback
self._set_result(self.run())
File "/usr/lib64/python3.11/site-packages/pyanaconda/modules/common/task/task.py", line 96, in _thread_run_callback
self._task_run_callback()
File "/usr/lib64/python3.11/threading.py", line 975, in run
self._target(*self._args, **self._kwargs)
File "/usr/lib64/python3.11/site-packages/pyanaconda/threading.py", line 275, in run
threading.Thread.run(self)
File "/usr/lib64/python3.11/site-packages/pyanaconda/threading.py", line 166, in raise_if_error
raise exc_info[1]
File "/usr/lib64/python3.11/site-packages/pyanaconda/modules/common/task/task.py", line 175, in finish
threadMgr.raise_if_error(self._thread_name)
File "/usr/lib64/python3.11/site-packages/pyanaconda/ui/gui/spokes/installation_progress.py", line 75, in _on_installation_done
self._task.finish()
File "/usr/lib64/python3.11/site-packages/pyanaconda/core/signal.py", line 41, in emit
func(obj, *args, **kargs)
File "/usr/lib64/python3.11/site-packages/pyanaconda/modules/common/task/runnable.py", line 115, in _task_stopped_callback
self._stopped_signal.emit()
File "/usr/lib64/python3.11/site-packages/pyanaconda/core/async_utils.py", line 68, in _idle_method
func(*args, **kwargs)
pyanaconda.modules.common.errors.general.AnacondaError: 'utf-8' codec can't decode byte 0xe9 in position 1989: invalid continuation byte
Local variables in innermost frame:
self: <dasbus.client.handler.ClientObjectHandler object at 0x7f6fd3eed660>
error: g-io-error-quark: GDBus.Error:org.fedoraproject.Anaconda.Error: 'utf-8' codec can't decode byte 0xe9 in position 1989: invalid continuation byte (36)
name: org.fedoraproject.Anaconda.Error
cls: <class 'pyanaconda.modules.common.errors.general.AnacondaError'>
message: 'utf-8' codec can't decode byte 0xe9 in position 1989: invalid continuation byte
exception: 'utf-8' codec can't decode byte 0xe9 in position 1989: invalid continuation byte
Full log: https://paste.c-net.org/DieterServants
efibootmgr
BootCurrent: 0000
Timeout: 0 seconds
BootOrder: 3005,2001,0001,0002,2002,2003
Boot0000* USB Hard Drive (UEFI) - VerbatimSTORE N GO PciRoot(0x0)/Pci(0x10,0x0)/USB(3,0)/USB(3,0)/HD(2,GPT,596bfe18-6cfc-4880-ba96-298703c7c362,0x3e31d0,0x5d24)RC
Boot0001* Network Adapter (IPv4 UEFI) PciRoot(0x0)/Pci(0x15,0x1)/Pci(0x0,0x0)/MAC(28924a43217d,0)/IPv4(0.0.0.00.0.0.0,0,0)RC
Boot0002* Network Adapter (IPv6 UEFI) PciRoot(0x0)/Pci(0x15,0x1)/Pci(0x0,0x0)/MAC(28924a43217d,0)/IPv6([::]:<->[::]:,0,0)RC
Boot0004* USB Hard Drive (UEFI) - KingstonDataTraveler 3.0 PciRoot(0x0)/Pci(0x10,0x0)/USB(3,0)/USB(1,0)/HD(2,GPT,3e29ebd0-a027-46f7-bbac-5cebcb5e27db,0xe6673d0,0x10000)RC
Boot0005* EFI HDD Device (TEAM T2531TB) PciRoot(0x0)/Pci(0x11,0x0)/Ata(0,0,0)/HD(1,GPT,ea161a50-d771-4309-a2b6-95d0ab007a7c,0x800,0x12c000)RC
Boot0010* Notebook Hard Drive BBS(HD,,0x500)feff00000000110000000000000001012d005de90200000519005de941005de9000000020000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000100
Boot0011* Internal CD/DVD ROM Drive BBS(CDROM,,0x500)feff00000000110000000000000001012d0064e903000005190064e9410064e9000000130000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000300
Boot0012* Notebook Hard Drive BBS(HD,,0x500)feff00000000110000000000000001012d005de90200000519005de941005de9000000020000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000100
Boot0013* Internal CD/DVD ROM Drive BBS(CDROM,,0x500)feff00000000110000000000000001012d0064e903000005190064e9410064e9000000130000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000300
Boot0018* Notebook Hard Drive BBS(HD,,0x500)feff00000000110000000000000001012d005de90200000519005de941005de9000000020000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000100
Boot0019* Internal CD/DVD ROM Drive BBS(CDROM,,0x500)feff00000000110000000000000001012d0064e903000005190064e9410064e9000000130000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000300
Boot001A* Notebook Hard Drive BBS(HD,��,0x500)feff00000000110000000000000001012d005de90200000519005de941005de9000000020000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000100
Boot001B* Internal CD/DVD ROM Drive BBS(CDROM,��,0x500)feff00000000110000000000000001012d0064e903000005190064e9410064e9000000130000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000300
Boot2001* USB Drive (UEFI) RC
Boot2002* Internal CD/DVD ROM Drive (UEFI) RC
Boot3005* Internal Hard Disk or Solid State Disk RC
Based on responses from Installer crashes when attempting to install on a Dell Inspiron 3217u from around 2012 there are no files containing DUMP in /sys/firmware/efi/efivars, and enabling Secure Boot did not fix the problem.
Any help would be appreciated, and if needed, I will provide more info. Now i’m in Fedora Workstation Live mode.