Fedora Users — Re: Anaconda crashes

MIke wrote:

On Sun, 2004-02-01 at 12:47, MIke wrote:

I am trying to put Fedora on my IBM laptop. I have a 10gb hdd and 84 mb dram. Windows 98SE is installed on a 2GB partition. The rest is unpartitioned.

When I try to install Fedora, using a floppy to start and the embedded
CD to continue, all is well until I finish with the software selection
then the following appears in a pop-up

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traceback(most recent call Last);
File "/usr/lib/anaconda/gui-py", Line 786 , inhandleRenderCallback
self.currentWindow.renderCallback()
File "/usr/lib/anaconda/iw/progress-gui.py", Line 149 , inrenderCallback
self.intf.icw.nextClicked()
File "/usr/lib/anaconda/gui.py",Line 632 , innext Clicked
self.dispatch.gotoNext()
File "/usr/lib/anaconda/dispatch.py", Line 150 , ingotoNext
self.moveStep()
File "/usr/lib/anaconda/dispatch.py", Line 215 , inmovestep
rc=apply(func,self.bindArgs(args))
File "/usr/lib/anaconda/packages.py", Line 430 , in turnOnFilesystems
Partitions.doMetaDeletes(diskset)
File "/usr/lib/anaconda/partitions.py", Line 1110 , indoMetaDeletes
(vm.vgactivate())
File "/usr/lib/anaconda/iutil.py",
Line 66 , in execWithRedirect
childpid = os.fork()

OSError[errno 12] cannot allocate memory
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I have installed Fedora on a mini server,
(90 mb dram, 8 GB hdd and a 66 MHz P3) and it runs fine
so the problem does not seem to be resources.

Any direction will be greatly appreciated.

Mike


Further research, via bugzilla, reports this is not a bug. Hmmmmm.
The stated answer is not enough memory. Hmmmmm.
If I find a means to solve this I'll post it here.

Mike

did you try installing in text mode?
the line in the python debug output ...

(vm.vgactivate())

could mean a gui problem ..  just an idea ...

pantz

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