Bug 75901 - GUI installation provides an exception error at the beginning of package install
Summary: GUI installation provides an exception error at the beginning of package install
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Status: CLOSED WONTFIX
Alias: None
Product: Red Hat Linux
Classification: Retired
Component: anaconda
Version: 8.0
Hardware: i586
OS: Linux
medium
high
Target Milestone: ---
Assignee: Michael Fulbright
QA Contact: Brock Organ
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Depends On:
Blocks:
TreeView+ depends on / blocked
 
Reported: 2002-10-14 19:10 UTC by Need Real Name
Modified: 2007-04-18 16:47 UTC (History)
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Last Closed: 2002-10-14 19:11:11 UTC
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Description Need Real Name 2002-10-14 19:10:59 UTC
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User-Agent: Mozilla/4.0 (compatible; MSIE 5.5; Windows NT 5.0)

Description of problem:
GUI installer works fine until actual package installation, then before any 
packages install I get an OSError: [Errno 12] Cannot allocate memory. Tried to 
install using manual mem=XXM but errored out in same place. Thought it was a 
FAT32 problem, blew away partition on drive, same result. Checked CD's for file 
defects and all came back without error. Autodiscovery of components works 
without problem. 

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


How reproducible:
Always

Steps to Reproduce:
1. Install from CD.
2. Took defaults on everything
3. Exception error on beginning of package installation.
	

Actual Results:  Received an exception error: "OSError: [Errno 12] Cannot 
allocate memory"

Expected Results:  Installation should have continued.

Additional info:

The computer is a Compaq Presario 2240, 48MB RAM and 2GB hard disk.

File "usr/lib/anaconda/gui.py", line 786, in handleRenderCallback 
self.currentWindow.renderCallback()
File "usr/lib/anaconda/iw/progress_gui.py", line 149, in renderCallback 
self.intf.icw.nextClicked()
File "usr/lib/anaconda/gui.py", line 632, in nextClicked self.dispatch.gotoNext
()
File "usr/lib/anaconda/dispatch.py", line 150, in gotoNext self.moveStep()
File "usr/lib/anaconda/dispatch.py", line 215, in moveStep rc=applyfunc, 
self.bindArgs(args))
File "usr/lib/anaconda/packages.py", line 430, in turnOnFilesystems 
partitions.doMetaDeletes(diskset)
File "usr/lib/anaconda/partitions.py", line 1110, in doMetaDeletes 
lvm.vgactivate()
File "usr/lib/anaconda/lvm.py", line 54, in vgactivate searchPath=1)
File "usr/lib/anaconda/iutil.py", line 66, in execWithRedirect childpid=os.fork
()
OSError: [Errno 12] Cannot allocate memory

Comment 1 Jeremy Katz 2002-10-16 21:54:33 UTC
GUI installs probably don't work without 64 megs of RAM these days -- we don't
even technically support installs with < 64 megs of RAM, but a text-mode NFS or
CD-ROM install should work fine with 48.

Comment 2 Need Real Name 2002-10-19 19:26:31 UTC
this is a duplicate of 74847

Comment 3 Michael Lee Yohe 2003-01-09 14:09:59 UTC
This appears to be a duplicate of Bug 76123.  The problem is that there is not
enough memory to process the transactions that are to be executed by the
installer.  Anaconda, in GUI mode, requires at least 64M+ of memory and 128M of
swap.  

You can alternatively attempt to install Red Hat Linux 8.0 in text mode by
specifying "linux text" at the SYSLINUX prompt upon first boot.  Anaconda, in
text mode, is more lenient on memory resources.


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