On 6/9/07, Paul Smith <phhs80@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
On 6/9/07, Lonni J Friedman <netllama@xxxxxxxxx> 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. > > 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? A lot of people have complained about installing F7. Maybe a yum installation may overcome the problems that you are experiencing. For details, see: http://marc.info/?l=fedora-list&m=118123328903053&w=2
actually, i think i figured it out. Looks like its this bug: https://bugzilla.redhat.com/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=242105 -- ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ L. Friedman netllama@xxxxxxxxx LlamaLand http://netllama.linux-sxs.org
