From Bugzilla Helper: 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
How much memory do you have?
Created attachment 69885 [details] traceback
I have 64Meg RAM
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.
Created attachment 71286 [details] meminfo output
You need to add at least 192M of swap for your install.