Description of problem: After selecting of unprobed monitor, next screen was for upgrading boot loader (using GRUB), selected 1st) upgrade and 2nd) reuse. Got error reporting screen. Attempted to save to floppy, but was not able to save (hand copied report - below). Was not able to continue, had to manually reboot. Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable): RH9, upgrading to FC2. System is extremely slow to respond now. How reproducible: rebooted and attempted again, same results Steps to Reproduce: 1. 2. 3. Actual results: File: /us/anaconda/gui.py line 763 in nextClicked self.dispatch.gotoNext() /us/anaconda/dispatch.py line 169 in gotoNext self.move() /us/lib/anaconda/dispatch.py in moveStep rc=apply(func, self.bindArgs(args)) /us/lib/anaconda/upgrade.py line 359 in upgradeFindPackages uitils.setClock(inetPath) /us/lib/anaconda/uitis.py line 385 in setClock root=root) ---> note the root) statement was copied as such, not a typo on my part /us/lib/anaconda/util.py line 55 in execWithRedirect childpid-os.fork() OSError:[Emo12]Cannot allocate memory Expected results: Wanted to upgrade to FC2 to improve memory performance, but system locked up. Additional info: System was slow to respond previously, is worse now. Will now attempt FC3.
How much RAM is in your system?
The system I have is a generic AMD CPU at 750MHz w/ 512MBytes of RAM. Using the same CDs, I upgraded another system previously (a (very) old DELL with 64/128 (?) MBytes of RAM, and it went great. From your comments, might you suspect that I have a memory problem? If so, do you know of a program to test memory under Linux? Appreciate your additional queries, shows that you are keeping track and are interested. Thank you very much. Dennis Rice
If you boot the CD with 'memtest86', you should boot into a memory tester
Closing due to inactivity. Please reopen if you continue to encounter this on more current releases.