Anaconda early startup failure - traceback

[Kyle Powell]

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whitivery wrote:
> We have a working Kickstart server for CentOS 4.4, building
> targets running CentOS 4.4.
> 
> I built a new server with CentOS 5.3, to build CentOS 5.3
> targets, adapting for the changes I noticed as I went along.  The
> new server boots and runs but won't build a target unit.
> 
> When I PXE-boot a target unit, I get the boot menu and pick an
> entry, it starts the early part fine, loads stage2.img OK, shows
> a couple screens then a "Retrieving installation information"
> dialog/progress bar, and just when/after that gets to 100%, it
> halts with a traceback.

Looks like you need more RAM:
http://www.centos.org/modules/newbb/viewtopic.php?topic_id=19367&forum=37

Same thing with Fedora:
http://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=499585

Minimum RAM requirement for RHEL 5 is 512MB. I assume that applies to CentOS as
well:
http://www.redhat.com/rhel/compare/
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Kyle Powell | Red Hat | Senior Consultant, RHCE
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