Red Hat Bugzilla – Bug 77188
Installer crashes with message " OSError:(Errno 12)"
Last modified: 2007-04-18 12:48:06 EDT
From Bugzilla Helper: User-Agent: Mozilla/4.0 (compatible; MSIE 5.5; Windows 98; Win 9x 4.90; SC/5.07/1.00/Compaq) Description of problem: Installer crashes every time with message "OSError (Errno 12) Kan ikke tildele minne." I am installing RedHat Linux 8.0 on a P166, 64Mb ram, and 40 Gb HD. The machine used to run Win ME with no problems. Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable): How reproducible: Always Steps to Reproduce: 1.Start setup 2.Norwegian keyboard 3. Actual Results: Crash! Expected Results: Install completed... Additional info:
Was this a graphical or text mode install? What did you select to install?
Hello, and thank you for your reply. Additional info as requested: * Install was in Graphical mode * Partitioning was automatic * Install selected was Personal Desktop * Chosen packages was GNOME, OpenOffice, Mozzilla, Evolution, Instant Messging, Sound and picture-program and Games. All as recommended. Here is the complete list of errors: 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=apply(func,self.bindArgs(args)) File"/usr/lib/anaconda/packages.py" line 430, in turnOnFilesystems partitions.doMetaDeletes(diskset) File"/sr/lib/anaconda/partitions.py" line1110, in doMetaDeletes lvm.vgactivate() File"/sr/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) kan ikke tildele minne
I got the exact error with the same traceback path except I chose English and the last line said: OSError:[Errno 12] Cannot allocate memory
Please try in text mode - that will require less memory.
Install in text mode OK. Linux is now running fine, but a little slow. Will try to buy some more memory!
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.