Yep, I missed a # sign on a comment which is what is was complaining about. Too bad it didn't give more information about the line it didn't like...could have saved me a few days... Ryan -----Original Message----- From: Trevin Beattie [mailto:tbeattie@xxxxxxxxxx] Sent: Tuesday, June 29, 2004 2:43 PM To: 'General Red Hat Linux discussion list' Cc: Ryan Golhar Subject: Re: New Kickstart Problem I don't know if you got an answer for this already, but I got almost the exact same error message, and I found out what the problem is. The difference was that instead of saying "KeyError: Kickstart", my system said "KeyError: linux". I looked at the code for kickstart.py on line 676, then looked further up at the initialization of handlers[]. Apparently it was trying to look up which function to call for a keyword in your kickstart file, and "Kickstart" is not a valid keyword. (In my case, the word "linux" was supposed to be part of a comment of which I had accidentally pasted some lines in the middle.) So if you fix your kickstart file, everything should work just fine. This certainly looks like a bug of non-robustness in kickstart.py. The code should have checked for invalid configuration options. Cheers. -- Trevin Beattie ----- Original Message ----- Date: Tue, 01 Jun 2004 13:08:16 -0400 To: "'General Red Hat Linux discussion list'" <redhat-list@xxxxxxxxxx> I posted this message once before but didn't get a response. I recently updated my RedHat CDs to update 2. Now, when I try to kickstart a machine, I'm getting the following error: Waiting for X server to start...log located in /tmp/X.log 1...2...3...4...5... X server started successfully. (X then exits and drops back to console) Traceback (most recently call last): File "/usr/bin/anaconda", line 1042, in ? instClass.setInstallData(id) File "/usr/lib/anaconda/kickstart.py", line 1218, in setInstallData self.readKickstart(id, self.file) File "/usr/lib/anaconda/kickstart.py", line 676, in readKickstart if handlers[args[0]]: KeyError: Kickstart Install existed abnormally The system then proceeds to shutdown. Any ideas? ----- Ryan Golhar Computational Biologist The Informatics Institute at The University of Medicine & Dentistry of NJ -- redhat-list mailing list unsubscribe mailto:redhat-list-request@xxxxxxxxxx?subject=unsubscribe https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/redhat-list