Description of problem: At the start of trying to install packages, just after formatting the various filesystems, I get an "unhandled exception" when python fails a os.fork() with "OSError: [Errno 12] Cannot allocate memory" Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable): RHEL4 Update 3 ES installation DVD (constructed from released CD images,which show the same error) How reproducible: 2 for 2. The full text of the exception is as follows. transcribed by hand, but I hope it's correct: Traceback (most recent call last): File "/usr/src/build/711710-x86_86/install//usr/lib/anaconda/gui.py", line 1074, in handleRenderCallback self.currentWindow.renderCallback() File "/usr/src/build/711710-x86_86/install//usr/lib/anaconda/iw/progress_gui.py", line 242, in renderCallback self.intf.icw.nextClicked() File "/usr/src/build/711710-x86_86/install//usr/lib/anaconda/gui.py", line 789, in nextClicked self.dispatch.gotoNext() File "/usr/src/build/711710-x86_86/install//usr/lib/anaconda/dispatch.py", line 171, in gotoNext self.moveStep() File "/usr/src/build/711710-x86_86/install//usr/lib/anaconda/dispatch.py", line 239, in moveStep rc = apply(func, self.bindArgs(args)) File "/usr/src/build/711710-x86_86/install//usr/lib/anaconda/packages.py", line 967, in doInstall syslog.start(instPath, syslogname) File "/usr/src/build/711710-x86_86/install//usr/lib/anaconda/syslogd.py", line 65, in start self.pid = os.fork () OSError: [Errno 12] Cannot allocate memory
How much memory do you have?
4 GB. 2 GB per processor.
have something very similar installing FC6 x86_64. The installation sequence: default (graphical) type of installation skipping the media check installation language russian keyboard layout russian microsoft partitioning - manually 3 existing partitions - hda1 51 Gb for XP, hda2 2 Gp as swap, hda3 23 Gb Ubuntu removed hda 3 and created a new one of 12 gb, primary, root GRUB settings leaved as suggested - two bootable partitions, Fedora as default. network settings - no DHCP, no IPv6, manual IP+GW+DNS TZ - Moscow (as suggested) Next, on the page of choosing tha package groups to be installed, after choosing "Development tools" checkbox I've clicked "Fedora Extras" and had exeption (twice each time I've tried to install under same conditions) Here is the traceback: File "/usr/lib/anaconda/iw/netconfig_dialog.py", line 69, in _netdevChanged if netdev.get("ipaddr"): self.xml.get_widget("ipv4AddressEntry").set_text(netdev.get("ipaddr") AttributeError: 'NoneType' object has no attribute 'set_text' The hardware is http://www.signalcomputer.it/prodotti/notebook/olidata_stainer-w2800.htm with 1Gb of RAM instead of 512M
Tigran: your issue is not related to this bug report, and is happening in Fedora Core instead of in RHEL. Please report different bugs on different bug reports. However, we already have your issue fixed. See the bug AnacondaExtrasConfig for a description of how to work around the problem.
Please attach /tmp/anaconda.log and /tmp/syslog to this bug report. We need more information to figure out how to debug this.
requested by Jams Antill