From Bugzilla Helper: User-Agent: Mozilla/4.79 [en] (Windows NT 5.0; U) Description of problem: Filled out all installation screens for standard Personal Desktop (graphics install mode) Got to "About to Install" screen Clicking Next almost immediately gave dialog "Exception Occured" Asks me to copy full text and file a detailed bug report against anaconda at http://bugzilla.redhat.com/bugzilla Traceback (most recent call last): 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, inturnOnFilesystems partitions.doMetaDeletes(diskset) File "/usr/lib/anaconda/partitions.py",line 1110, in doMetaDeletes lvm.vgactivate() File "/usr/lib/anaconda/lvm.py",lin 54, in vgactivate searchPath = 1) File "/usr/lib/anaconda/iutil.py",line 66, in execWithRedirect childpid = os.fork() OSError: [Errno 12] Cannot allocate memory If I install via "text" mode everything works fine Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable): How reproducible: Always Steps to Reproduce: 1.Steps given above 2. 3. Additional info
Reporter, check to see if your bug is a duplicate of Bug 76123. There are useful comments with regards to how much memory must be installed in your machine to install Red Hat Linux 8.0.
It certainly is SIMILAR to bug 76123. The point I tried to make (which wasn't made in 76123 as far as I could see) was if you just change the install to text mode, then you can install Linux 8.0 and it will run on a system with < 128MB. That seemed silly to me (both the install approaches presumably install the same system - I can use the __full GUI__ when I install in text mode, albeit with a lot of swapping going on).
Correct - if you read the comments by Red Hat developers in Bug 76123, you will notice that they've changed the timing of swap activation so these memory problems will not occur. Also, the release notes have been updated to specify the system requirements for future releases. Resolution == DUPLICATE (Bug 76123)
I could not find the information about the system being installed, or the steps required to reproduce the issue. If you could point me at this information I may be able to help.
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