Since Python 3.6 landed in Rawhide, all kickstart installs fail. This seems to be because python3 is broken in the anaconda dracut environment. A Python traceback appears in the journal when you attempt to install with a kickstart; you can reproduce the same traceback by booting the installer image with 'rd.break' and just trying to run 'python3' from the dracut environment. It ends with:

  File "/usr/lib64/python3.6/sysconfig.py", line 424, in _init_posix
    _temp = __import__(name, globals(), locals(), ['build_time_vars'], 0)
ModuleNotFoundError: No module named '_sysconfigdata_m_mlinux_x86_64-linux-gnu'

(well, on x86_64; on other arches it'd look a bit different, of course).

This seems to be because /usr/lib64/python3.6/_sysconfigdata_m_linux_x86_64-linux-gnu.py (or other arch equivalent) is not included in the initramfs.

AFAICT, the script /usr/lib/dracut/modules.d/80anaconda/python-deps - from anaconda-dracut - is used to include Python bits in the anaconda initramfs. It's called like this, in module-setup.sh:

    # python deps for parse-kickstart. DOUBLE WOOOO
    PYTHONHASHSEED=42 $moddir/python-deps $moddir/parse-kickstart $moddir/driver_updates.py | while read dep; do
        case "$dep" in
            *.so) inst_library $dep ;;
            *.py) inst_simple $dep ;;
            *) inst $dep ;;
        esac
    done

so let's see what it prints out for those files:

[adamw@adam 80anaconda]$ ./python-deps ./parse-kickstart ./driver_updates.py | grep sysconfig
/usr/lib64/python3.6/distutils/sysconfig.py
/usr/lib64/python3.6/sysconfig.py
[adamw@adam 80anaconda]$

...yeah, it does not detect that _sysconfigdata_m_linux_x86_64-linux-gnu.py is needed, by the looks of it.

I haven't had time yet to further debug why that is. It does look like python-deps has a kind of override dict for things that it can't detect properly, called alsoNeeded, so we might just have to put it in there, but I'll dig in a bit more to see.

Proposing as an Alpha blocker - this violates "The scripted installation mechanism must provide a working function for creating local user accounts, including the ability to specify a hashed password, and for specifying a hashed password for the root account.", because *nothing* about the 'scripted installation mechanism' works at all. https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Fedora_26_Alpha_Release_Criteria#scripted-user-creation