Chris 'Chipper' Chiapusio wrote:
On Sat, Jun 09, 2007 at 07:15:30AM -0700, Lonni J Friedman wrote:I'm attempting to upgrade a system from FC6 x86 to F7, and the upgrade is stalling after installing a few packages every time.
Could see the same behaviour on a fast machine with a lot of memory.At least when starting the package install, anaconda stalls for some minutes (it needs a lot of seconds for rather small packages).
Additionally, at the end of upgrade (before the reboot prompt), there is a long period with a flickering screen - unable to see what anaconda deals with.
When I switch to a virtual console, I see that anaconda is consuming 100% CPU, and in the upgrade.log the last few lines show assorted packages with the error: "Couldn't fork %post: Cannot allocate memory" This system has 384MB of RAM, so its not starved by any means. Any one have ideas? -- ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ L. Friedman netllama@xxxxxxxxx LlamaLand http://netllama.linux-sxs.orgI experienced this as well and got past it by going to console two once the install began and manually enabling swap. In fact I created an extra swapfile to ensure there was more than enough available. Chip
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