Bug 115589 – Installer crashes in iutil.py with Errno 12 Cannot allocate memory

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Bug 115589 - Installer crashes in iutil.py with Errno 12 Cannot allocate memory

Summary:	Installer crashes in iutil.py with Errno 12 Cannot allocate memory

Status:	CLOSED RAWHIDE

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Product:	Fedora
Classification:	Fedora
Component:	anaconda (Show other bugs)
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Version:	1
Hardware:	i386 Linux

Priority	medium Severity high
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Assigned To:	Jeremy Katz
QA Contact:	Mike McLean
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Reported:	2004-02-13 13:14 EST by Ken Desloover
Modified:	2007-11-30 17:10 EST (History)
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Last Closed:	2004-02-17 19:42:17 EST
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Description Ken Desloover 2004-02-13 13:14:37 EST

From Bugzilla Helper:
User-Agent: Mozilla/4.0 (compatible; MSIE 6.0; Windows NT 5.0; .NET 
CLR 1.0.3705; .NET CLR 1.1.4322)

Description of problem:
File "/usr/lib/anaconda/iutil.py", line 63, in execWithRedirect
   childpid = os.fork()
OSError [Errno 12] Cannot allocate memory

I can supply the rest if needed - but need to manually type it in, 
can't copy it.

Compaq Presario 9234 / 133 Mhz Pentium w/80 MB.

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How reproducible:
Always

Steps to Reproduce:
1. Run installation, select Server configuration
2. Select packages to install
3. Start installation
    

Additional info:

Comment 1 Jeremy Katz 2004-02-13 13:30:49 EST

Doing a graphical or text mode installation?

Comment 2 Ken Desloover 2004-02-13 13:59:41 EST

Graphical - X windows starts fine, and continues even after the 
anaconda crash - but can't do anything.

I am trying to pre-partition using Disk Druid, using same parameters 
as the automatic partition was trying.

Comment 3 Jeremy Katz 2004-02-17 19:42:17 EST

Workaround by booting with 'linux text' -- bumping up the default
minimum ram.

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