Red Hat Bugzilla – Bug 78756
Installation Exception Occured while Installing Packages on Redhat 8.0 gui
Last modified: 2007-04-18 12:48:45 EDT
From Bugzilla Helper: User-Agent: Mozilla/4.0 (compatible; MSIE 5.0; Windows 98; DigExt) Description of problem: Installing on a Toshiba Satellite Pro 425CDS. Tried twice with GUI install tool. Exception occurs when Installing Packages page is submitted. Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable): How reproducible: Always Steps to Reproduce: 1. Tried RedHat installation 2x. Blows up same on submition of Installing Packages page. 2. 3. Actual Results: Traceback( most recent call last): File "/usr/lib/anaconda/gui.py", line 786, in handleRenderCallback self.currentWindow.renderCallback() File "/usr/lib/anaconda/gui.py", line 149, in renderCallback self.intf.icw.nextClicked() File "/usr/lib/anaconda/gui.py", linae 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 "/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 Expected Results: Should build. Additional info:
This same exception also occurse on this system from the 'linux text' installation during the same spot. The system displayed the depencency widget, the formatting file system widget before the error message was productd.
How much RAM is in your system?
Currently there is 40M of ram and kernel 2.4.7-10 is running a modified server version with Redhat7.2 package versions of all software.
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. 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.
*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of 76123 ***
What is the resolution?
Changed to 'CLOSED' state since 'RESOLVED' has been deprecated.