Hi,
As an update, I was able to finally get livemedia-creator to work, and that worked on these (and my) kickstarts. So, perhaps there is a problem with livecd-creator which I understand is scheduled to go away anyway.
Best wishes,
Ranjan
On Wed Jun11'25 11:17:16AM, Community Support for Fedora Users wrote:
> From: Ranjan Maitra via users <users@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> Date: Wed, 11 Jun 2025 11:17:16 -0500
> To: Community Support for Fedora Users <users@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> Cc: Ranjan Maitra <mlmaitra@xxxxxxx>
> Reply-To: Community support for Fedora users <users@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> Subject: error in creating Fedora 42 remix using livecd-creator
>
> Hi,
>
> I have been trying to create (in Fedora 42) a Fedora Live spin (I have done this for a while) using livecd-creator but I have been getting a python related error.
>
> So, I decided to copy the kickstart files for the LXDE spin (and its associated) files but get:
>
> sudo livecd-creator --config=fedora-live-lxde.ks --releasever=42 --cache=cache --tmpdir=tmp --fslabel=Fedora-LXDE --logfile=livecd.log
>
> Traceback (most recent call last):
> File "/usr/bin/livecd-creator", line 265, in <module>
> sys.exit(main())
> ~~~~^^
> File "/usr/bin/livecd-creator", line 195, in main
> ks = imgcreate.read_kickstart(options.kscfg)
> File "/usr/lib/python3.13/site-packages/imgcreate/kickstart.py", line 54, in read_kickstart
> ksfile = urlgrabber.urlgrab(path, filename=tmpks)
> File "/usr/lib/python3.13/site-packages/urlgrabber/grabber.py", line 808, in urlgrab
> return default_grabber.urlgrab(url, filename, **kwargs)
> ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
> File "/usr/lib/python3.13/site-packages/urlgrabber/grabber.py", line 1205, in urlgrab
> (url,parts) = opts.urlparser.parse(url, opts)
> ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~^^^^^^^^^^^
> File "/usr/lib/python3.13/site-packages/urlgrabber/grabber.py", line 873, in parse
> pathname = pathname2url(url)
> File "/usr/lib64/python3.13/urllib/request.py", line 1679, in pathname2url
> return quote(pathname, encoding=encoding, errors=errors)
> File "/usr/lib64/python3.13/urllib/parse.py", line 924, in quote
> raise TypeError("quote() doesn't support 'encoding' for bytes")
>
> TypeError: quote() doesn't support 'encoding' for bytes
> pathname = pathname2url(url)
> File "/usr/lib64/python3.13/urllib/request.py", line 1679, in pathname2url
> return quote(pathname, encoding=encoding, errors=errors)
> File "/usr/lib64/python3.13/urllib/parse.py", line 924, in quote
> raise TypeError("quote() doesn't support 'encoding' for bytes")
>
> TypeError: quote() doesn't support 'encoding' for bytes
>
> What is wrong here? I got these kickstart files by using:
>
> git clone ssh://git@xxxxxxxxx/fedora-kickstarts.git fedora-kickstarts
>
> Many thanks in advance for any suggestions that you can provide, and my very best wishes,
> Ranjan
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