Bug 115589

Summary: Installer crashes in iutil.py with Errno 12 Cannot allocate memory
Product: [Fedora] Fedora Reporter: Ken Desloover <kdeslo>
Component: anacondaAssignee: Jeremy Katz <katzj>
Status: CLOSED RAWHIDE QA Contact: Mike McLean <mikem>
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Description Ken Desloover 2004-02-13 18:14:37 UTC
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Description of problem:
File "/usr/lib/anaconda/iutil.py", line 63, in execWithRedirect
   childpid = os.fork()
OSError [Errno 12] Cannot allocate memory

I can supply the rest if needed - but need to manually type it in, 
can't copy it.

Compaq Presario 9234 / 133 Mhz Pentium w/80 MB.

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How reproducible:
Always

Steps to Reproduce:
1. Run installation, select Server configuration
2. Select packages to install
3. Start installation
    

Additional info:

Comment 1 Jeremy Katz 2004-02-13 18:30:49 UTC
Doing a graphical or text mode installation?

Comment 2 Ken Desloover 2004-02-13 18:59:41 UTC
Graphical - X windows starts fine, and continues even after the 
anaconda crash - but can't do anything.

I am trying to pre-partition using Disk Druid, using same parameters 
as the automatic partition was trying.

Comment 3 Jeremy Katz 2004-02-18 00:42:17 UTC
Workaround by booting with 'linux text' -- bumping up the default
minimum ram.