Bug 595487

Summary:	Anaconda silently failes because of not enough ram when launched from livecd
Product:	[Fedora] Fedora	Reporter:	Clemens Eisserer <linuxhippy>
Component:	anaconda	Assignee:	Ales Kozumplik <akozumpl>
Status:	CLOSED RAWHIDE	QA Contact:	Fedora Extras Quality Assurance <extras-qa>
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Priority:	low
Version:	13	CC:	jonathan, jzeleny, vanmeeuwen+fedora
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Description Clemens Eisserer 2010-05-24 19:11:23 UTC

Description of problem:

I tried installing a Fedora-13RC3 LiveCD on a rather old computer (384mb ram, 17gb harddrive). 
Although the live-cd worked great, clicking on the "Install" icon simply did nothing - no error dialog, no popup, nothing.

When I searched in anaconda's log-file it mentioned there was not enough free RAM, so it launched in text-mode. Quite bad with X already running and without a console to see its output ;)


Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable):
Fedora13RC3 live cd

How reproducible:
Always


Steps to Reproduce:
1. Start live-cd on a system with 384mb ram or less
2. Click the "install"-icon on the desktop
  
Actual results:
Nothing happens, not even a notification popup.


Expected results:
Anaconda should check wether there's swap-space available, and report that the machine has less RAM than recommended and that therefor the installation, giving the user the choice between no installation and a (maybe?) slow one.

Additional info:

Comment 1 Ales Kozumplik 2010-05-25 05:32:17 UTC

Hi Clemens,

can you please attach /tmp/anaconda.log to this bug report?

Thanks.
Ales

Comment 2 Ales Kozumplik 2010-05-25 13:36:29 UTC

Forget it. This has been fixed rawhide, we didn't put it into f13 since it is not a blocker, see http://git.fedorahosted.org/git/?p=anaconda.git;a=commit;h=3d977a502d773a1b1764b73f8e423c5350e1f929.