Description of problem: # fedup-cli --network 18 setting up repos... default-installrepo/metalink | 31 kB 00:00 rpmfusion-free-updates/18/i386 | 3.3 kB 00:00 rpmfusion-free-updates/primary_db | 92 kB 00:00 rpmfusion-nonfree-updates/18/i386 | 3.3 kB 00:00 rpmfusion-nonfree-updates/primary_db | 61 kB 00:00 updates/18/i386/metalink | 25 kB 00:00 updates/18/i386 | 4.7 kB 00:00 updates/primary_db | 6.2 MB 00:01 getting boot images... .treeinfo | 1.2 kB 00:00 setting up update... rpmfusion-free-updates/filelists_db | 82 kB 00:00 rpmfusion-nonfree-updates/filelists_db | 27 kB 00:00 updates/filelists_db | 8.6 MB 00:01 finding updates 100% [=========================================================]Traceback (most recent call last): File "/usr/bin/fedup-cli", line 356, in <module> main(args) File "/usr/bin/fedup-cli", line 301, in main pkgs = download_packages(f) File "/usr/bin/fedup-cli", line 57, in download_packages updates = f.build_update_transaction(callback=output.DepsolveCallback(f)) File "/usr/lib/python2.7/site-packages/fedup/download.py", line 188, in build_update_transaction (rv, msgs) = self.buildTransaction(unfinished_transactions_check=False) File "/usr/lib/python2.7/site-packages/yum/__init__.py", line 1138, in buildTransaction (rescode, restring) = self._doSkipBroken(rescode, restring) File "/usr/lib/python2.7/site-packages/yum/__init__.py", line 1292, in _doSkipBroken rescode, restring = self._skipPackagesWithProblems(rescode, restring) File "/usr/lib/python2.7/site-packages/yum/__init__.py", line 1365, in _skipPackagesWithProblems rescode, restring = self.resolveDeps(True, skipping_broken=True) File "/usr/lib/python2.7/site-packages/yum/depsolve.py", line 873, in resolveDeps CheckDeps, checkinstalls, checkremoves, missing = self._resolveRequires(errors) File "/usr/lib/python2.7/site-packages/yum/depsolve.py", line 1020, in _resolveRequires errors += errormsgs MemoryError Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable): fedup-0.7.3-0.git20130128.fc17.noarch How reproducible: Seems to always crash. The "MemoryError" message appears intermittent. Steps to Reproduce: 1. install fedup from fedora-updates-testing as suggested 2. run fedup from network 3. Actual results: Application crashes. Expected results: Normal completion, system ready to reboot. Additional info: fedup worked on two additional systems but seems to fail here consistently. On this machine I get the same result if I do fedup --iso /src/Fedora-18-i386-DVD.iso
"MemoryError" just means your system ran out (or otherwise couldn't) allocate memory. This is almost certainly the same as bug 896242 - the only difference is whether we run out of RAM while still in Python or while trying to run an external program. How much RAM is in this system? Does the problem go away if you shut down unnecessary programs or run fedup from multi-user (non-graphical) mode?
*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of bug 896242 ***