Bug 223753

Summary: RAM256MB, nos swap - installation HANGS
Product: [openSUSE] openSUSE 10.2 Reporter: Sebastian Furdal <sfurdal>
Component: InstallationAssignee: Steffen Winterfeldt <snwint>
Status: RESOLVED FIXED QA Contact: Jiri Srain <jsrain>
Severity: Blocker    
Priority: P5 - None CC: aj, kukuk, sbrabec
Version: RC 1   
Target Milestone: ---   
Hardware: i586   
OS: Other   
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Attachments: yast logs with swapon

Description Sebastian Furdal 2006-11-25 19:37:24 UTC
... total hangs on rpm's openSUSE 10.2 RC1 installation process when swap is off. The problem I had solved using swapon to mount swap file created before installation.
Comment 1 Sebastian Furdal 2006-11-25 19:38:59 UTC
Created attachment 106937 [details]
yast logs with swapon

+ 2 files saved using

free > free.txt
top -n1 > top.txt
Comment 2 Andreas Jaeger 2006-11-26 05:54:34 UTC
How can we solve this?  Can we enable swap earlier or change a parameter?
Comment 3 Sebastian Furdal 2006-11-27 13:27:44 UTC
DEA is simple - creating swap file just after mounting partition ... for example, when user click 'Install' then msg window should apear:

You have not enaugh MEMORY/SWAP. Create swap file in /?
<edit box> - default "192" MB
<parition> - default "/" + theoretical free space
(create) (not create) - buttons

Or add creating swapfile in 'Partitioning' ...

simple ;)
Comment 4 Steffen Winterfeldt 2006-11-27 14:35:20 UTC
*** Bug 178325 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***
Comment 5 Steffen Winterfeldt 2006-11-27 14:37:10 UTC
adjusted memory limits, so people get asked about swap if needed
Comment 6 Steffen Winterfeldt 2006-11-27 14:49:42 UTC
Before I forget, the new memory limits affect all architectures. In
particular, swap is added on ppc if you have only 256MB.

Hope it is ok, Olaf.
Comment 7 Olaf Hering 2006-11-27 14:56:14 UTC
maybe it is ok, maybe not.

see bug #211859 and bug #211860
Comment 8 Steffen Winterfeldt 2006-11-27 15:13:36 UTC
Well, the limits are chosen to work with x86_64; should be ok for ppc,
I think.