Bug 596993

Summary: Anaconda causes OOM during upgrade
Product: [Fedora] Fedora Reporter: James Vega <vega.james>
Component: anacondaAssignee: Ales Kozumplik <akozumpl>
Status: CLOSED WONTFIX QA Contact: Fedora Extras Quality Assurance <extras-qa>
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Version: 14CC: alan, jonathan, jzeleny, vanmeeuwen+fedora
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Fixed In Version: anaconda-14.7 Doc Type: Bug Fix
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Description James Vega 2010-05-27 21:20:07 UTC
Description of problem:
In trying to upgrade from F12 to F13 via preupgrade, the install kept dying after downloading install.img.  One of the attempts, I switched to VT4 to watch the message logs and saw that the OOM killer was trashing anaconda, and a few other things along the way.  Since this was a VM (VirtualBox 3.2.0), I changed the allocated memory from 256 MB to 384 MB and this time anaconda was able to get far enough to tell me that there wasn't enough memory for the graphical installer, so the text installer would be used instead.

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How reproducible:
Happened every time I tried to upgrade with 256 MB allocated to the VM.

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Actual results:
OOM killer gets triggered while anaconda does initial setup after install.img is downloaded.

Expected results:
Low memory conditions are detected and text installer is used.

Comment 1 Ales Kozumplik 2010-05-28 08:34:54 UTC
James,

thanks for the report. the fix won't make f13 so I'm moving it to rawhide.

Ales

Comment 2 Ales Kozumplik 2010-05-28 08:36:00 UTC
Oh,

did you say 'downloading install.img'? Does it mean you used http or ftp method for the install?

Thanks.
Ales

Comment 3 James Vega 2010-05-28 14:02:04 UTC
I used preupgrade to prep the upgrade, but there wasn't enough space in /boot for everything that preupgrade needed to stash there.  So, when I rebooted to perform the upgrade, it downloaded install.img.

Comment 4 Ales Kozumplik 2010-06-01 13:46:24 UTC
Fixed in anaconda-14.7 by commit 9735b2bd5c98dbe310ed666c1194a25f3d825b7f.

Comment 5 Bug Zapper 2010-07-30 11:44:12 UTC
This bug appears to have been reported against 'rawhide' during the Fedora 14 development cycle.
Changing version to '14'.

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Comment 6 Alan Crosswell 2011-04-01 00:34:04 UTC
Does not appear to be fixed in 14.22.  Fails on a text-mode install with 384 MB.  See release notes documentation bug 691238 that I've filed.  Is this supposed to work in a 384 MB system or not?

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