Joachim Backes wrote:
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?
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I 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
Same problem here, although I gave up on the upgrade and went to a full
install before I saw this thread. During the full install the installer
said memory was low and that it was going to create more swap. I guess
they forgot to add this same logic to the upgrade process.
