Bug 76123
| Summary: | installer hangs with traceback error (OS Error:[Errno 12] Cannot allocate memory | ||
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| Product: | [Retired] Red Hat Linux | Reporter: | Need Real Name <george.stewart> |
| Component: | anaconda | Assignee: | Jeremy Katz <katzj> |
| Status: | CLOSED RAWHIDE | QA Contact: | Brock Organ <borgan> |
| Severity: | medium | Docs Contact: | |
| Priority: | medium | ||
| Version: | 8.0 | CC: | ajweltman, alebec, chandra_s_prasad, dghinds, erikheidt, joegreco, kakurathi, kitm, luis, mevett, mherrick, rdjurovich, redycom, stock, urvishjani, zeed_777 |
| Target Milestone: | --- | ||
| Target Release: | --- | ||
| Hardware: | i586 | ||
| OS: | Linux | ||
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| Fixed In Version: | Doc Type: | Bug Fix | |
| Doc Text: | Story Points: | --- | |
| Clone Of: | Environment: | ||
| Last Closed: | 2002-10-24 19:00:06 UTC | Type: | --- |
| Regression: | --- | Mount Type: | --- |
| Documentation: | --- | CRM: | |
| Verified Versions: | Category: | --- | |
| oVirt Team: | --- | RHEL 7.3 requirements from Atomic Host: | |
| Cloudforms Team: | --- | Target Upstream Version: | |
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How much memory do you have in your machine? There is 64mb of memory in system the system has 64 mb. I am also ruuning into same problem. I am booting the system using MS-DOS disk and ending with the above error. I changed few options and the problem is always showing up. I did not test with Linux7.2. This problem is Linux Installer8.0. I have the same ploblem. My PC is a IBM NetVista 6269-R3S, Intel Pentium III 600MHz, 64 Ram, HD 13GB IBM, Video Intel 810, Monitor IBM G42. I don't have any partition on the HD. I'm using RedHat Linux 8.0 The program also told me that my HD have an inconsistent geometry and recommends me to use LBA. And that this could not affect the use of it. i have met the same error problem. please told me how i can fix it. I get the same problem when i try to install 8.0 on my Toshiba Laptop. I couldn't install 7.3 on this machine (it booted from diskette, caught signal 11 in /sbin/loader), so i tried to install 8.0. 8.0 lets me do all parametering, until i finally launch the installation, and then getting the tracaback error, without possibility to save it to a floppy (doesn't work...). Does anyone know how to fix that ? I've got a Pentium 166 w/64MB memory - 1GB, 3GB, 6GB IDE hard drives - I get this on floppy/CD install of Linux 8.0: ... File "usr/lib/anaconda/dispatch.py", line 215, in moveStep rc = apply(func, self.bindArgs(args)) File "usr/lib/anaconda/packages.py", line 430, in turnOnFilesystems partitions.doMetaDeletes(diskset) File "usr/lib/anaconda/partitions.py", line 1110, in doMetaDeletes lvm.vgacivate() File "usr/lib/anaconda/lvm.py", line 54, in vgactivate searchPath = 1) File "usr/lib/anaconda/iutil.py", line 66, in execWithRedirect childpid = os.fork() OSError: [Errno 12] Cannot allocate memory install exited normally sending termination signals...done sending kill signals...done disabling swap... unmounting filesystems... /mnt/runtime done disabling /dev/loop0 /proc done /dev/pts done /mnt/source done you may safely reboot your system Going back in graphical mode with only 64 megs of ram seems to exhaust available memory. Please boot with 'linux text' and do a text mode install or go forward through the install process. I've bumped the numbers in CVS for turning on swap early. I do have an Dell Pentium III, with 128mb and I am getting the same annoying message and the installation quits. It does not happens with 7.2 and 7.3. Should be a bug. Is there any other solution, rather than installing using the text only facility ? Thanks, Andre. I would like to appologize for my last message. My computer does have only 64mb and NOT 128Mb as I wrote. So probably I am having the same memory problem. But anyway the installation program should work fine with 64Mb like the earlier versions. I have a Pentium 133 mhz with 40 MB memory installed and I'm having the same problem. Can I work with version 7.3 in graphical mode with this amount of memory? Can somebody give the answer to this question? I too got this traceback error with Redhat 8.0 booting from floppy and installing from the ftp site. I have a P4 2,67 GHz, 512MB RDRAM, 80GB HDD partitioned with 100MB /boot, 1GB swap, 10GB /, 60GB /workpartition. Except of swap the filesystem is ext3. The installation reports an error reading the partition table from this harddisc. I had same problem installing RH 8.0. Had 64mb RAM and adding 128mb goes fine, i finished instalation with anaconda ok !! :) Anyone have other less expensive solution?? Time tracking values updated *** Bug 78756 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. *** *** Bug 78719 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. *** *** Bug 82047 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. *** *** Bug 82164 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. *** *** Bug 82881 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. *** *** Bug 82452 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. *** Why was this closed? *** Bug 83067 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. *** *** Bug 77598 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. *** *** Bug 84130 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. *** Is there a workaround or fix that can be downloaded to get allow installs on machines with 64M? *** Bug 85067 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. *** |
From Bugzilla Helper: User-Agent: Mozilla/4.0 (compatible; MSIE 6.0; Windows 98) Description of problem: Version 7.3 installed fine with same hardware but not 8.0. Goes through whole intallation setup including hard drive partitioning and install packages and dependancies but then halts with traceback report. System is Gateway 2000 P5- 120 with STB Trio 64 video card (S3) and Vivitron 1572 (Sony) monitor. Disk drives are WD 5.1GB (Linux) and WD 1.6GB (Windows 98)dual booting. Doing install of workstation Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable): How reproducible: Always Steps to Reproduce: 1./boot 100mb 2./ 4.9Gb 3./swap 100mb Actual Results: get Traceback error everytime: Traceback (most recent call last): file "/usr/anaconda/gui.py", line 786 in handleRenderCallback Self.CurrentWindow.renderCallback() file "/usr/lib/anaconda/iw/progress_gui.py", line 149, in renderCallbackself.intf.icw.nextClicked() file "/usr/lib/anaconda/gui.py", line 632, in nextClickedself.dispatch.gotonext () file "/usr/lib/anaconda/dispatch.py", line 150, in gotoNextself.movestep() file "/usr/lib/anaconda/dispatch.py", line 215 in moveStep rc=applx(func,self.bindArgs(args)) file "/usr/anaconda/packages.py", line 430, in turnOnFilesystems partitions.doMetadeletes (diskset) file "/usr/lib/anaconda/partions.py", line 1110, in doMetaDeletes lvm.Vgactivate file "/usr/lib/anaconda/lvm.py", line 54 in vgactivate searchPath=1) ** note single bracket ** file "/usr/lib/anaconda/iutil.py", line 66, in execwithRedirect childpid=OS.fork() OSError: [Errno 12] Cannot allocate memory Expected Results: should have proceeded to format the partitions and then start install of packages. Additional info: using boot.img to boot from floppy disk to CDROM. Tried image from 8.0 distribution and also from 7.3. Two drive are HDA (windows 98) and HDB for Linux. Installation works fine for 7.3. Tried both ext2 and ext3 partitions. Suspect either a formating problem of HD or video problem. Using Personal package just bought and received (not ISO downloads.