Bug 216677
| Summary: | install devours memory when the kickstart keyword repo is used | ||
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| Product: | [Fedora] Fedora | Reporter: | stef <stephane.tranchemer> |
| Component: | anaconda | Assignee: | James Antill <james.antill> |
| Status: | CLOSED RAWHIDE | QA Contact: | |
| Severity: | high | Docs Contact: | |
| Priority: | medium | ||
| Version: | 6 | CC: | k.georgiou, orion |
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| Target Release: | --- | ||
| Hardware: | i386 | ||
| OS: | Linux | ||
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| Fixed In Version: | Doc Type: | Bug Fix | |
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| Last Closed: | 2008-03-06 00:05:08 UTC | Type: | --- |
| Regression: | --- | Mount Type: | --- |
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| oVirt Team: | --- | RHEL 7.3 requirements from Atomic Host: | |
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Description
stef
2006-11-21 14:53:34 UTC
Please attach the error message you are receiving to this bug. Also, what package selections are you making in the %packages section of your kickstart file? just the install crashing red screen scrolling fast with rpmdb errors rpmdb: PANIC: fatal region error detected; run recovery error: db4 Here's the %packages section %packages @base @base-x @admin-tools @gnome-software-development @development-tools @development-libs @x-software-development @gnome-desktop @web-server @mysql @office @sound-and-video @system-tools @legacy-software-development @legacy-software-support @editors @graphics @text-internet @ruby @authoring-and-publishing @graphical-internet @french-support @engineering-and-scientific libXp -gaim -xchat How much memory does your machine have? The box where it happens has 1Gb RAM and I configured kickstart to create a 2Gb SWAP partition on disk I seem to be seeing this as well on a 512MB Core 2 Duo Latitude D620. I've had successful installs with this same kickstart file on other machines before now though. Maybe we've just finally grown big enough to cause problems... I'm not sure it's a memory issue though. anaconda process size does grow for a while when installing packages (as seen by top), to around 25%, but gets down to about 3-5% again by the time of the crash. Unless that is really just showing the anaconda process being slowing push to swap? May just be a frail rpmdb (again)? I've been seeing problems on a box upgraded from FC5. Okay, free is now showing 141632k swap used, so memory is an issue. Is this still happening with rawhide or a Fedora 7 test release? (In reply to comment #8) > Is this still happening with rawhide or a Fedora 7 test release? Hard to test for a couple reasons: - immediate but fixable: bug #231543 - multiple repositories are currently broken. - harder - I didn't notice this problem until FC6 had been in production for a while the the updates repo had gotten to an appreciable size. Not sure how to similate this for testing. I filed a new bug #241062, but I guess it's really a duplicate of this one, but it points out the cause. rpms are building up in /tmp/cache/<repo>/packages and filling up ram. This is why it showed up after fc6 had been released one enough updates got released. |