Bug 1470909 - anaconda silently crashes with small /, /var, /home, and memory (DOWNLOAD_MPOINTS)
Summary: anaconda silently crashes with small /, /var, /home, and memory (DOWNLOAD_MPO...
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Status: CLOSED EOL
Alias: None
Product: Fedora
Classification: Fedora
Component: anaconda
Version: 26
Hardware: Unspecified
OS: Unspecified
unspecified
medium
Target Milestone: ---
Assignee: Vendula Poncova
QA Contact: Fedora Extras Quality Assurance
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TreeView+ depends on / blocked
 
Reported: 2017-07-14 01:16 UTC by Bruce Jerrick
Modified: 2023-09-14 04:01 UTC (History)
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Last Closed: 2018-05-29 11:54:36 UTC
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Description Bruce Jerrick 2017-07-14 01:16:49 UTC
Description of problem:
anaconda silently crashes and reboots when installing F26 Release
on a system with a small /, /var, /home, and memory (reasonable
with a separate (large) /usr).  The problem is that none of the
filesystems listed in DOWNLOAD_MPOINTS in dnfpayload.py are large
enough for working space, and /tmp (tmpfs) is also too small due
to the limited memory.  A simple fix is to add "/mnt/sysimage/usr"
to DOWNLOAD_MPOINTS .

Version-Release number of selected component:
anaconda-26.21.11-1.fc26

How reproducible:
100%

Steps to Reproduce:
1. Install F26 Release with something like the following:
    8 GiB     memory (RAM)
    500 MiB   / (root)
    2 GiB     swap
    2 GiB     /var
    27.3 GiB  /usr
    500 MiB   /home
    ~5000 packages, with total size of *.rpm about 4.8 GiB

Actual results:
anaconda silently crashes and reboots shortly into the "Starting
package installation process" stage.

Expected results:
Installation succeeds.

Additional info:
I posted this as Comment 19 to RHBZ #1328151 (now CLOSED ERRATA).
The addition of "/mnt/sysimage/usr" to DOWNLOAD_MPOINTS works, but
using that entails rebuilding the installer with lorax/pungi .
I presume it's too late to change F26, but it would be nice if the
addition could be made in F27 .

Comment 1 Vendula Poncova 2017-08-29 14:34:41 UTC
Hello, could you please attach logs from /tmp?

Comment 2 Fedora End Of Life 2018-05-03 08:11:54 UTC
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Comment 4 Red Hat Bugzilla 2023-09-14 04:01:08 UTC
The needinfo request[s] on this closed bug have been removed as they have been unresolved for 1000 days


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