Bug 71235 - Installer stops with traceback indicating: Errno 12 Cannot allocate memory
Summary: Installer stops with traceback indicating: Errno 12 Cannot allocate memory
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Status: CLOSED NOTABUG
Alias: None
Product: Red Hat Linux
Classification: Retired
Component: anaconda
Version: 7.3
Hardware: i386
OS: Linux
medium
high
Target Milestone: ---
Assignee: Michael Fulbright
QA Contact: Brock Organ
URL:
Whiteboard:
Depends On:
Blocks:
TreeView+ depends on / blocked
 
Reported: 2002-08-10 18:13 UTC by Jim Lyles
Modified: 2007-04-18 16:45 UTC (History)
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Doc Type: Bug Fix
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Last Closed: 2002-08-17 00:18:51 UTC
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Attachments (Terms of Use)
traceback (1.09 KB, text/plain)
2002-08-10 22:35 UTC, Jim Lyles
no flags Details
meminfo output (437 bytes, patch)
2002-08-17 00:18 UTC, Jim Lyles
no flags Details | Diff

Description Jim Lyles 2002-08-10 18:13:10 UTC
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User-Agent: Mozilla/4.0 (compatible; MSIE 5.0; Windows 98; DigExt)

Description of problem:
This program simply will not work

Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable):


How reproducible:
Always

Steps to Reproduce:
1.run anaconda installation program
2.
3.
	

Actual Results:  program stopped with below traceback wrror

Expected Results:  program should have completed installation of RedHat Linux 
7.3 Vahalla

Additional info:

Traceback (innermost last):
  File "/usr/bin/anaconda", line 633, in ?
    intf.run(id, dispatch, configFileData)
  File "/usr/lib/anaconda/gui.py", line 353, in run
    self.icw.run (self.runres, configFileData)
  File "/usr/lib/anaconda/gui.py", line 814, in run
    mainloop ()
  File "/usr/lib/python1.5/site-packages/gtk.py", line 2676, in mainloop
    _gtk.gtk_main()
  File "/usr/lib/anaconda/gui.py", line 529, in handleRenderCallback
    self.currentWindow.renderCallback()
  File "/usr/lib/anaconda/iw/progress_gui.py", line 135, in renderCallback
    self.intf.icw.nextClicked()
  File "/usr/lib/anaconda/gui.py", line 417, in nextClicked
    self.dispatch.gotoNext()
  File "/usr/lib/anaconda/dispatch.py", line 144, in gotoNext
    self.moveStep()
  File "/usr/lib/anaconda/dispatch.py", line 209, in moveStep
    rc = apply(func, self.bindArgs(args))
  File "/usr/lib/anaconda/packages.py", line 573, in doinstall
    syslog.start (instPath, syslogname)
  File "/usr/lib/anaconda/syslogd.py", line 63, in start
    self.pid = os.fork ()
OSError: [Errno 12] Cannot allocate memory

Comment 1 Jeremy Katz 2002-08-10 20:52:00 UTC
How much memory do you have?

Comment 2 Jim Lyles 2002-08-10 22:35:58 UTC
Created attachment 69885 [details]
traceback

Comment 3 Jim Lyles 2002-08-10 22:39:19 UTC
I have 64Meg RAM


Comment 4 Michael Fulbright 2002-08-14 19:34:44 UTC
Once you boot the install, hit cntl-alt-f2 to goto a screen with a command prompt.

Then type 'cat /proc/meminfo' and please attach the output.

Comment 5 Jim Lyles 2002-08-17 00:18:46 UTC
Created attachment 71286 [details]
meminfo output

Comment 6 Michael Fulbright 2002-08-23 15:56:15 UTC
You need to add at least 192M of swap for your install.


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