Bug 80463

Summary:	Installer states "unhandled exception" just before installing to hard drives
Product:	[Retired] Red Hat Linux	Reporter:	Harold P. Hjalmarson <hphjalm>
Component:	anaconda	Assignee:	Michael Fulbright <msf>
Status:	CLOSED RAWHIDE	QA Contact:	Mike McLean <mikem>
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Version:	8.0	CC:	hphjalm
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Description Harold P. Hjalmarson 2002-12-26 21:07:58 UTC

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Description of problem:
The system hangs in util.py  I cannot use the floppy disk option to capture the bug report. 



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How reproducible:
Didn't try


Actual Results:  hung system

Expected Results:  Disk activity indicating that the installation is proceediing.

Additional info:

The last linesin the final window  are the following.

File "/usr/lib/anaocnda/util.py", line 66, in execwithRedirect childpid = os.fork()

OSError: [errno 12] Cannot allocate memory

I had planned to do a server install.  Then I went back to change it to a custom install.  This change deleted all the partioning so I had to re-enter all that information.

I noticed that the earlier lines captured in the final window refer to partitions.py and to meta-deletes.

When I reinstall, I won't change my mind about which type to system to install.  I expect that I won't have another hung installation.

Comment 1 Michael Fulbright 2002-12-27 16:24:30 UTC

How much RAM is in your system? 64MB is required.

Comment 2 Harold P. Hjalmarson 2002-12-28 21:03:50 UTC

Thanks for responding. 

I have exactly 64 MB of RAM in the computer.  It is slower than it was with 
Redhat 7.2; thus I probably will buy some more RAM for it.

I successfully installed Redhat 8.0 on my second attempt.

I also note that in both attempts I had tried to mount hdb as /home.  However, 
this mount did not occur probably because the installer made /home on hda 
(there were no error messages).  Later I did a rename to mount hdb as /home.  

I mention this in case it has some relevance to the installer hangup in the 
first attempt.

Comment 3 Jeremy Katz 2002-12-29 22:37:08 UTC

We've bumped where the amount of RAM needed before turning on swap "early" in
rawhide, so this shouldn't be as much of a problem in future releases.