From Bugzilla Helper: User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 Galeon/1.2.6 (X11; Linux i686; U;) Gecko/20020830 Description of problem: Not much to be said; the anaconda dump should talk for itself Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable): How reproducible: Didn't try Steps to Reproduce: 1. Install (upgrade) 8.0 2. 3. Actual Results: Crash of installer Additional info:
Created attachment 84984 [details] Anaconda-dump
Unable to install Red Hat, What can I be doing wrong? The following report was given while attempting to install redhat 8.0 on an older machine currently set up with win98. The PC is an HP with 200 mhz, about 48 ram and 20gb hdd. I have reformatted and reinstalled win98 (upgraded from win95) prior to attempting to install Red hat 8.0 I am hoping to install Linux on this machine to become familiar with Linux as an OS before installing on other PCs. The report has the option to debug? or save to floppy however nothing is read to a floppy when choosing that option. EXCEPTION OCCURRED An unhandled exception has occurred. This is most likely a bug. Traceback (most recent call last): File /usr/lib/anaconda/gui.py, line 786, in handleRenderCallback Self.currentWindow.renderCallback0 File /usr/lib/anaconda/iw/progress_gui.py, line 149, in renderCallback Self.int.icw.nextClicked0 File /usr/lib/anaconda/gui.py, line 632, in nextClicked Self.dispatch.gotoNext0 File /usr/lib/anaconda/dispatch.py, line 150, in gotoNext Self.moveStep0 File /usr/lib/anaconda/dispatch.py, line 215, in moveStep Rc = apply(func,self.bindArgs(args)) File /usr/lib/anaconda/packages.py, line430 inOnFileSystems Partitions.doMetaDeletes(diskset) File /usr/lib/anaconda/partions.py, line1110, in doMetaDeletes Lvm.vgactiveate0 File /usr/lib/anaconda/lvm.py, line 54 in vgactivate SearchPath = 1) File /usr/lib/anaconda/iutil.py, line 66 in execWithRedirect Chidpid = os.fork0 OSError.[Errno 12] Cannot allocate memory Please advise, regards Colin
You need to remove the 'kernel-smp' package before you attempt an upgrade.
This 'Closed Won'tFix' is a nice escape, isn't it !? It *must* fix, I'd say, because 1. I wasn't even aware that it had been installed on that cheapie AMD400 2. An upgrade to 7.3 works flawlessly (do you want to tell me that it is normal to have less able anacondas in more recent distros?) 3. In any case, the installer should not core dump during upgrade once it doesn't find what it needs, better: finds what it does not like Of course, I leave it to you to decide
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.