Description of problem: An unhandled exception during installation on x86_64 Traceback (most recent call last): File "/usr/src/build/711710-x86_64/install//usr/lib/anaconda/gui.py", line 1074, in handleRenderCallback self.currentWindow.renderCallback() File "/usr/src/build/711710-x86_64/install//usr/lib/anaconda/iw/progress_gui.py", line 242, in renderCallback self.intf.icw.nextClicked() File "/usr/src/build/711710-x86_64/install//usr/lib/anaconda/gui.py", line 789, in nextClicked self.dispatch.gotoNext() File "/usr/src/build/711710-x86_64/install//usr/lib/anaconda/dispatch.py", line 171, in gotoNext self.moveStep() File "/usr/src/build/711710-x86_64/install//usr/lib/anaconda/dispatch.py", line 239, in moveStep rc = apply(func, self.bindArgs(args)) File "/usr/src/build/711710-x86_64/install//usr/lib/anaconda/packages.py", line 967, in doInstall syslog.start (instPath, syslogname) File "/usr/src/build/711710-x86_64/install//usr/lib/anaconda/syslogd.py", line 65, in start self.pid = os.fork () OSError: [Errno 12] Cannot allocate memory Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable):RHEL WS 4 Update 3 How reproducible: Constantly encoutering error. Could not proceed with any installation Steps to Reproduce: 1. Hardware: HP Workstation xw8200 4GB memory, 4 x 73GB SCSI Drives, Nvidia Quadro NVS 285, 2 x HP1955 LCD Display 2. Boot machine from the RHEL-WS_4 CD No. 1 3. Installation crashed soon after disk formatting ends and transfering of src image. Actual results: Expected results: Additional info:
Created attachment 159579 [details] anaconda dump file
This problem was reported on RHEL WS 4 Update 3, and we believe it has been corrected since then. Certainly x86_64 installation succeeds. We're already stretching Anaconda capacity to the limits for this release, so I'm dev-NAKing this.
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