Description of problem: When I tried install F18 i686 on PC with 1.25 GB RAM, installation crashes after installing severa (of 3500) packages. At further testing I found this is caused by insufficient RAM, and crash occur when installing some bigger packages - in my case eg. 'wesnoth-data' (~325 MB), fluid-soundfont-lite-patches (~143 MB) etc. Installation was successful only after reducing number of installed packages and eliminate biggest of them. Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable): anaconda 18.37.11 How reproducible: Always - take machine with 1 GB (according to F18 minimal requirements) RAM and try install desktop system with 2500+ RPMs and select some bigger packages (100-150+ MB). Expected results: I was hoped that, with new redesigned anaconda, will be possible install Fedora to older machines with only 512 MB RAM (I think previous F17- acaconda versions required 768 MB RAM) - but contrary is the case, although new anaconda functionality seems cropped for me, its memory requirements are significantly higher. Additional info: 1 GB minimal memory requirements, as stated for F18, is probably sufficient only for minimal installation; usual desktop configuration isn't possible. It defends install Fedora to older machines, specially on notebooks and devices where is limited amount of RAM and it is problematic expand it (even for installation). Monitoring installation process with 'top' utility I noticed that anaconda occupy even 810 VIRTual and 690 RESident MB of memory.
Did you try F19, which was released on 2013-07-02? Subject: Announcing the release of Fedora 19! Date: 2013-07-02 14:01:29 GMT http://article.gmane.org/gmane.linux.redhat.fedora.test.announce/732
I cannot reproduce this from the given information. Test installs in a VM from the F18 DVD with 1 GB memory and default disk partitioning succeed and boot to the desktop. All add-ons were selected in each case: f18 gnome 1677 packages f18 kde 1731 packages Further, I successfully installed wesnoth-data and fluid-soundfont-lite-patches after booting into the installed system. Tested with: $ qemu-img create f18-test-2.img 12G $ qemu-kvm -m 1024 -hda f18-test-2.img -cdrom ~/xfr/fedora/F18/Fedora-18-i386-DVD.iso -vga std -boot menu=on
How are you installing? What desktop? What add-ons? How are you partitioning your disk? > ... installation crashes ... Do you get a bug-reporting dialog?
(In reply to Steve Tyler from comment #3) > How are you installing? > What desktop? > What add-ons? > How are you partitioning your disk? > > > ... installation crashes ... > > Do you get a bug-reporting dialog? I was doing install with kickstart file, where were specified network, machine name, root+users accounts and packages. Disk partitioning was done manually before installation (~ 7 GPT partitions) and in anaconda installation dialog these partitions was re-formated according to my needs (swap, BIOS boot + 3 ext4 partitions (/boot, root, /home; other partitions was unused)). Installation sources (6 repos) were on NFS volumes. Kickstart file specified MATE, XFCE and LXDE desktops, Namely, there was groups: @admin-tools @base-x @core @czech-support @dial-up @directory-server @dns-server @editors @education @engineering-and-scientific @font-design @fonts @ftp-server @games @gnome-desktop @graphical-internet @graphics @hardware-support @input-methods @java @legacy-network-server @legacy-software-support @lxde-desktop @mail-server @mate-desktop @mysql @network-server @office @online-docs @printing @server-cfg @smb-server @sound-and-video @sql-server @system-tools @text-internet @virtualization @web-server @window-managers @xfce-desktop plus other individually specified RPM packages, all around with resolved dependencies it results to ~ 3500 RPM packages which should be installed. Bug reporting dialog was not shown, machine was living but anaconda stay (for hours) at this some big package installation. I was able from second console copy files to NFS server. "/tmp/packaging.log" ends with: 19:10:04,096 DEBUG yum.verbose.YumBase: TSINFO: Marking 2:texlive-pst-math-svn20176.0.61-16.fc18.noarch as install for 2:texlive-pstricks-add-svn28750.3.59-16.fc18.noarch 19:10:04,161 DEBUG yum.verbose.YumBase: TSINFO: Marking 2:texlive-varwidth-svn24104.0.92-16.fc18.noarch as install for 2:texlive-showexpl-svn27790.v0.3j-16.fc18.noarch 19:10:04,186 DEBUG yum.verbose.YumBase: TSINFO: Marking 2:texlive-attachfile-svn21866.v1.5b-16.fc18.noarch as install for 2:texlive-showexpl-svn27790.v0.3j-16.fc18.noarch 19:10:13,039 DEBUG yum.verbose.YumBase: Depsolve time: 290.001 19:10:13,049 DEBUG packaging: success 19:10:13,749 INFO packaging: 3642 packages selected totalling 19.37 GB 19:10:13,751 INFO packaging: preparing transaction 19:10:13,753 DEBUG packaging: initialize transaction set 19:10:13,756 DEBUG packaging: populate transaction set 19:27:08,547 DEBUG packaging: check transaction set 19:27:14,241 DEBUG packaging: order transaction set 19:27:15,799 INFO packaging: running transaction 19:27:43,453 INFO packaging: Installing fontpackages-filesystem-1.44-5.fc18.noarch (1/3642) 19:27:44,622 INFO packaging: Installing artwiz-aleczapka-fonts-common-1.3-13.fc18.noarch (2/3642) 19:27:45,065 INFO packaging: Installing ca-certificates-2012.87-1.fc18.noarch (3/3642) 19:27:45,698 INFO packaging: Installing hwdata-0.242-1.fc18.noarch (4/3642) 19:27:46,708 INFO packaging: Installing 1:control-center-filesystem-3.6.3-1.fc18.i686 (5/3642) 19:27:47,235 INFO packaging: Installing dejavu-fonts-common-2.33-4.fc18.noarch (6/3642) 19:27:47,854 INFO packaging: Installing setup-2.8.57-1.fc18.noarch (7/3642) 19:27:48,872 INFO packaging: Installing filesystem-3.1-2.fc18.i686 (8/3642) 19:27:54,651 INFO packaging: Installing telepathy-filesystem-0.0.2-4.fc18.noarch (9/3642) 19:27:55,050 INFO packaging: Installing mozilla-filesystem-1.9-8.fc18.i686 (10/3642) 19:27:55,476 INFO packaging: Installing tzdata-2012j-1.fc18.noarch (11/3642) 19:28:02,743 INFO packaging: Installing mgopen-fonts-common-0.20050515-19.fc18.noarch (12/3642) 19:28:03,349 INFO packaging: Installing gnu-free-fonts-common-20120503-4.fc18.noarch (13/3642) 19:28:03,525 INFO packaging: Installing 1:liberation-fonts-common-1.07.2-12.fc18.noarch (14/3642) 19:28:03,983 INFO packaging: Installing google-croscore-fonts-common-1.21.0-4.fc18.noarch (15/3642) 19:28:04,268 INFO packaging: Installing fedora-release-18-1.noarch (16/3642) 19:28:04,752 INFO packaging: Installing xkeyboard-config-2.6-6.fc18.noarch (17/3642) 19:28:06,809 INFO packaging: Installing beteckna-fonts-common-0.3-9.fc18.noarch (18/3642) 19:28:07,132 INFO packaging: Installing larabie-fonts-common-0-0.6.20011216.fc17.noarch (19/3642) 19:28:07,164 INFO packaging: Installing bitstream-vera-fonts-common-1.10-21.fc18.noarch (20/3642) 19:28:07,467 INFO packaging: Installing ctan-kerkis-fonts-common-2.0-26.fc18.noarch (21/3642) 19:28:07,758 INFO packaging: Installing tiresias-fonts-common-1.0-11.fc18.noarch (22/3642) 19:28:08,184 INFO packaging: Installing ctan-cm-lgc-fonts-common-0.5-20.fc18.noarch (23/3642) 19:28:08,614 INFO packaging: Installing denemo-fonts-common-0.9.4-0.fc18.noarch (24/3642) 19:28:09,037 INFO packaging: Installing mailcap-2.1.40-1.fc18.noarch (25/3642) 19:28:09,471 INFO packaging: Installing fluid-soundfont-common-3.1-9.fc18.noarch (26/3642) 19:28:10,161 INFO packaging: Installing fluid-soundfont-lite-patches-3.1-9.fc18.noarch (27/3642) I will try install F19 on same PC within one or two weeks and put result there.
Thanks Frantisek, that's very helpful. Could you attach the complete kickstart file and all logs to this bug report? (There is an "Add an attachment" link at the top of the bug report.) If you have adequate swap space, I'm not sure out-of-memory is the problem. What does "free" show?
Created attachment 769397 [details] kickstart file
I'd only some logs, not all, and I cannot now re-run installation again. From what I have: "top" snapshot ~ 4.5 hours after installation start (but I'm not sure how long was running own package installation): top - 21:16:46 up 4:28, 0 users, load average: 1.36, 1.34, 1.33 Tasks: 96 total, 1 running, 95 sleeping, 0 stopped, 0 zombie %Cpu(s): 63.0 us, 8.7 sy, 0.0 ni, 25.6 id, 1.0 wa, 1.5 hi, 0.3 si, 0.0 st KiB Mem: 1287216 total, 1207864 used, 79352 free, 14196 buffers KiB Swap: 2097148 total, 165636 used, 1931512 free, 561384 cached PID USER PR NI VIRT RES SHR S %CPU %MEM TIME+ COMMAND 707 root 20 0 587m 476m 9.9m S 84.6 37.9 168:41.57 anaconda 1435 root 20 0 3012 1044 828 R 6.0 0.1 0:00.01 top 1 root 20 0 7916 1608 936 S 0.0 0.1 0:11.75 systemd 2 root 20 0 0 0 0 S 0.0 0.0 0:00.00 kthreadd 3 root 20 0 0 0 0 S 0.0 0.0 0:00.01 ksoftirqd/0 5 root 0 -20 0 0 0 S 0.0 0.0 0:00.00 kworker/0:0H 7 root 0 -20 0 0 0 S 0.0 0.0 0:00.00 kworker/u:0H 8 root rt 0 0 0 0 S 0.0 0.0 0:00.00 migration/0 9 root rt 0 0 0 0 S 0.0 0.0 0:00.02 watchdog/0 10 root 0 -20 0 0 0 S 0.0 0.0 0:00.00 cpuset 11 root 0 -20 0 0 0 S 0.0 0.0 0:00.00 khelper 12 root 20 0 0 0 0 S 0.0 0.0 0:00.00 kdevtmpfs 13 root 0 -20 0 0 0 S 0.0 0.0 0:00.00 netns 14 root 20 0 0 0 0 S 0.0 0.0 0:00.00 bdi-default 15 root 0 -20 0 0 0 S 0.0 0.0 0:00.00 kintegrityd 16 root 0 -20 0 0 0 S 0.0 0.0 0:00.00 kblockd 17 root 0 -20 0 0 0 S 0.0 0.0 0:00.00 ata_sff 18 root 20 0 0 0 0 S 0.0 0.0 0:00.00 khubd 19 root 0 -20 0 0 0 S 0.0 0.0 0:00.00 md 22 root 20 0 0 0 0 S 0.0 0.0 0:01.31 kswapd0 23 root 25 5 0 0 0 S 0.0 0.0 0:00.00 ksmd 24 root 39 19 0 0 0 S 0.0 0.0 0:01.84 khugepaged 25 root 20 0 0 0 0 S 0.0 0.0 0:00.00 fsnotify_mark 26 root 0 -20 0 0 0 S 0.0 0.0 0:00.00 crypto 34 root 0 -20 0 0 0 S 0.0 0.0 0:00.00 kthrotld 36 root 20 0 0 0 0 S 0.0 0.0 0:00.00 scsi_eh_0 37 root 20 0 0 0 0 S 0.0 0.0 0:00.00 scsi_eh_1 39 root 0 -20 0 0 0 S 0.0 0.0 0:00.00 kpsmoused 41 root 0 -20 0 0 0 S 0.0 0.0 0:00.00 deferwq 45 root 0 -20 0 0 0 S 0.0 0.0 0:00.42 kworker/0:1H 53 root 20 0 0 0 0 S 0.0 0.0 0:00.00 kauditd 180 root 0 -20 0 0 0 S 0.0 0.0 0:00.00 iscsi_eh 185 root 0 -20 0 0 0 S 0.0 0.0 0:00.00 kmpath_rdacd 201 root 0 -20 0 0 0 S 0.0 0.0 0:00.00 kmpathd 202 root 0 -20 0 0 0 S 0.0 0.0 0:00.00 kmpath_handlerd 219 root 0 -20 0 0 0 S 0.0 0.0 0:00.00 rpciod 305 root 0 -20 0 0 0 S 0.0 0.0 0:00.00 ttm_swap 396 root 0 -20 0 0 0 S 0.0 0.0 0:00.72 loop0 401 root 0 -20 0 0 0 S 0.0 0.0 0:30.93 loop1 411 root 0 -20 0 0 0 S 0.0 0.0 0:00.15 loop2 415 root 0 -20 0 0 0 S 0.0 0.0 0:00.00 kdmflush 416 root 0 -20 0 0 0 S 0.0 0.0 0:00.00 ksnaphd 417 root 0 -20 0 0 0 S 0.0 0.0 0:00.00 kcopyd 480 root 20 0 0 0 0 S 0.0 0.0 0:00.02 jbd2/dm-0-8 481 root 0 -20 0 0 0 S 0.0 0.0 0:00.00 ext4-dio-unwrit 572 root 20 0 5728 760 528 S 0.0 0.1 0:00.28 systemd-udevd 580 root 20 0 39044 3264 3028 S 0.0 0.3 0:07.40 systemd-journal 640 root 20 0 38912 632 468 S 0.0 0.0 0:01.09 rsyslogd 666 root 20 0 3268 1116 940 S 0.0 0.1 0:00.41 bash 678 root 0 -20 0 0 0 S 0.0 0.0 0:00.00 cfg80211 687 dbus 20 0 11968 1080 812 S 0.0 0.1 0:01.10 dbus-daemon 690 root 20 0 46760 2160 1752 S 0.0 0.2 0:01.70 NetworkManager 697 polkitd 20 0 60836 1500 940 S 0.0 0.1 0:00.22 polkitd 706 root 20 0 4748 1208 496 S 0.0 0.1 0:01.94 tmux 708 root 20 0 5344 304 304 S 0.0 0.0 0:00.01 bash ....
Created attachment 769408 [details] f18MS-ks.cfg (uncompressed kickstart file)
(In reply to Frantisek Hanzlik from comment #7) > I'd only some logs, not all, and I cannot now re-run installation again. > From what I have: "top" snapshot ~ 4.5 hours after installation start (but > I'm not sure how long was running own package installation): > > top - 21:16:46 up 4:28, 0 users, load average: 1.36, 1.34, 1.33 > Tasks: 96 total, 1 running, 95 sleeping, 0 stopped, 0 zombie > %Cpu(s): 63.0 us, 8.7 sy, 0.0 ni, 25.6 id, 1.0 wa, 1.5 hi, 0.3 si, 0.0 > st > KiB Mem: 1287216 total, 1207864 used, 79352 free, 14196 buffers > KiB Swap: 2097148 total, 165636 used, 1931512 free, 561384 cached ... Thanks, Frantisek. The installer allocates 2 GB of swap space by default, when there is 1 GB of memory, so that looks OK. The developers will want to look at the log files, if you are able to get them later. They usually ask that the log files be attached as separate, uncompressed files.
Have you tried F19? Your two weeks are up ... :-) (Comment 4)
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