Bug 82047

Summary: Unhandled Exception in Installer
Product: [Retired] Red Hat Linux Reporter: Need Real Name <joegreco>
Component: anacondaAssignee: Jeremy Katz <katzj>
Status: CLOSED DUPLICATE QA Contact: Mike McLean <mikem>
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Priority: high    
Version: 8.0CC: michael
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Hardware: i686   
OS: Linux   
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Description Need Real Name 2003-01-16 19:46:04 UTC
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Description of problem:
On preparing to install screen (see 3.28 in installation guide), an unhandled exception occured when
next was selected.
See Below:

Exception Occured

An unhandled Exception has occured. This is most likely a bug.
Please copy the full text of this exception or save the crash dump
to a floppy then file a detailed bug report against anaconda at http://
bugzilla.redhat.com/bugzilla/

Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "/usr/lib/anaconda/gui.py",line 786, in handleRenderCallback
     self.currentWindow.renderCallback()
  File "usr/lib/anaconda/iw/progess_gui.py", line 149, in renderCallback
     self.intf.icw.nextClicked()
  File "usr/lib/anaconda/gui.py", line 632, in nextClicked
     self.dispatch.gotoNext()
  File "usr/lib/anaconda/dispatch.py", line 150, in gotoNext
     self.moveStep()
  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.vgactivate()
  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

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


How reproducible:
Always

Steps to Reproduce:
1. Boot from CD
2. Select Automatic Partitioning
3. Remove all partitions on system
4. Network Configuration use DHCP
5. firewall Config. Medium
6. Setup 2 user accounts
7. Package Group Selection, select all.
    (Tried with fewer packages, got same error)

    

Actual Results:  Same error

Expected Results:  ?

Additional info

Comment 1 Michael Fulbright 2003-01-16 20:27:56 UTC
How much RAM is in this system?

Comment 2 Michael Lee Yohe 2003-01-21 14:02:05 UTC
Reporter, check to see if your bug is a duplicate of Bug 76123.  There are
useful comments with regards to how much memory must be installed in your
machine to install Red Hat Linux 8.0.

Comment 3 Need Real Name 2003-01-21 14:50:44 UTC

*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of 76123 ***

Comment 4 Red Hat Bugzilla 2006-02-21 18:51:12 UTC
Changed to 'CLOSED' state since 'RESOLVED' has been deprecated.