Bug 624534

Summary:	liveinst + memory checking == odd UI
Product:	[Fedora] Fedora	Reporter:	Bill Nottingham <notting>
Component:	anaconda	Assignee:	Ales Kozumplik <akozumpl>
Status:	CLOSED ERRATA	QA Contact:	Fedora Extras Quality Assurance <extras-qa>
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Priority:	low
Version:	14	CC:	jonathan, jzeleny, rvokal, vanmeeuwen+fedora
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Description Bill Nottingham 2010-08-16 19:17:27 UTC

liveinst runs the same checks for memory as 'normal' anaconda. However, the
failure case is different:

1) run liveinst from desktop icon
2) checks memory
3) decides 'not enough, running TUI'
4) but isn't running in a terminal, so it silently exits

That's not the best UI. Perhaps if there's $DISPLAY + no terminal,
it should pop up a dialog and exit?

Comment 1 Ales Kozumplik 2010-08-25 09:24:44 UTC

Bill,

have you tried this recently? How much memory did you have and what architecture? A rawhide patch from March (3d977a502d773a1b1764b73f8e423c5350e1f929 ) displays a graphical error message on a livecd (albeit on a 256 MB KVM it takes really long, like everything on 256 MB), but only for the second check.

In theory, on less than 256 MB you can be a victim of the first basic memory check, that one has no GUI. Seeing how slow things are with 256 MB it's hard to believe you were able to boot into GNOME and click the icon with less.

Ales

Comment 2 Bill Nottingham 2010-08-25 16:06:49 UTC

Not recently. I noticed on the RHEL 6 branch, where the installer memory requirements are set much higher.

Comment 3 Fedora Update System 2010-09-03 15:10:42 UTC

anaconda-14.17-1.fc14 has been submitted as an update for Fedora 14.
https://admin.fedoraproject.org/updates/anaconda-14.17-1.fc14

Comment 4 Fedora Update System 2010-09-03 16:43:03 UTC

anaconda-14.17-1.fc14 has been pushed to the Fedora 14 testing repository.  If problems still persist, please make note of it in this bug report.
 If you want to test the update, you can install it with 
 su -c 'yum --enablerepo=updates-testing update anaconda'.  You can provide feedback for this update here: https://admin.fedoraproject.org/updates/anaconda-14.17-1.fc14

Comment 5 Fedora Update System 2010-09-15 07:09:52 UTC

anaconda-14.17-1.fc14 has been pushed to the Fedora 14 stable repository.  If problems still persist, please make note of it in this bug report.