FC6 -> F7 upgrade stalls
Philip Walden
pwaldenlinux at pacbell.net
Mon Jun 11 13:56:34 UTC 2007
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?
>>>
>>> --
>>> ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
>>> L. Friedman netllama at gmail.com
>>> LlamaLand http://netllama.linux-sxs.org
>>>
>>
>> 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.
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