From Bugzilla Helper: User-Agent: Mozilla/4.0 (compatible; MSIE 6.0; Windows NT 5.0) Description of problem: When installing Redhat 8.0 we are unable to get past this error. We are installing it on a compaq deskpro 2000 system. Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable): How reproducible: Always Steps to Reproduce: 1.Perform default setup on compaq deskpro 2000 2.enter one user account 3. Actual Results: unhandled exception error occurs everytime we install the program Expected Results: continuation of installation Additional info: 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.nextClickecd () File "/usr/lib/anaconda/gui.py", line 632, innextClicked self.dispatch.gotoNext () File "/usr/lib/anaconda/dispatch.py", lne 150, in gotoNext self.movestep () File "/usr/lib/anaconda/dispatch.py", line 215, in moveStep rc=apply(func, self.bindArgs (args)) File "/usr/lib/anaconda/packages.py", line 430, in TurnOnFilesSystems partitions.doMetaDeletes (diskset) File "/usr/lib/anaconda/partition.py", line 1110, in doMetaDeletes lvan.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: [Errno12] Cannot allocate memory
How much RAM is on this system?
48 MB
Could you try booting with 'mem=40M' on the command line. I think you are on the border of having enough RAM to run the install w/o enabling swap, so reducing the RAM the kernel thinks your machine has will force it to use swap and perhaps suceed.
Closing due to inactivity, please reopen if you have additional information to add.
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.
Changed to 'CLOSED' state since 'RESOLVED' has been deprecated.