Bug 225462

Created attachment 107920 [details]
YaST2 logs

YaST reports a dependency loop between sax2-libsax (library) and sax2 (application). This is should be fixed.

The error reported is
"Cannot fork Kan geen geheugen toewijzen"

I know a bit of nederlandsk (;-)) but what does 'geheugen' mean ?

Hmm, looking at http://nl.wikipedia.org/wiki/Geheugen I'd say its 'memory'

So its probably "cannot assign memory"

A couple of lines further down the log it says
"fork failed, errno: 12"

errno 12 is ENOMEM

Robby, how much main memory does the machine have ?
How much swap space did you configure ?

Hmm, y2logRPM says (some lines before sax2-libsax)
"warning: waiting for exclusive lock on /var/lib/rpm/Packages"
So some other package tools (RPM ?) were running in parallel.

And packages after sax2-libsax were installed correctly.

It looks more like a 'normal' memory problem with other concurrent processes allocatings lots of main mem.

'geheugen' means indeed: memory..
512 MB Ram, 400MB swap.
This is strange that that would be the problem, becuase all the packages which came after that package, were installed.
I have no problems only with this package, let me tell you it is the 'not enough memory bug', which tells there is no room, while there is 10 times as much room as needed..

I upgraded yesterday to RC5.
The only package not installed was the 'bug'package..
Today i tried to reinstall again, nothing else happening..
same error..
total desktop was freezing after trying to try again..
Desktop frozen for about 4 minutes...
There is something wrong, but not with my PC.. ;-)

I cannot see a dependency loop. Watch out the following graph which
represents the sax2 internal .spec dependencies:

digraph SaX2 {
 "sax2" -> "sax2-ident";
 "sax2" -> "sax2-tools";
 "sax2-gui" -> "sax2-tools";
 "sax2-gui" -> "sax2";
 "sax2-libsax" -> "sax2-tools";
 "sax2-libsax" -> "sax2";
 "sax2-libsax-devel" -> "sax2-libsax";
 "sax2-libsax-perl" -> "sax2-libsax";
 "sax2-libsax-python" -> "sax2-libsax";
 "sax2-libsax-java" -> "sax2-libsax";
}

check with dotty. I can't see any cyclic dependency

What is this bug about ? is it sax is it yast what command has been
called how can I reproduce this ? I know something about your PC and
I learned a bit of Dutch but I'm sorry I'm clueless what you
are talking about concerning the bug

Thanks

It is a guess, i know, but it hangs together with this:
Bug 222556....
Somewhere between RC1 and the folowing RC's, 'something' is changed, which caused this behavior.. (vague, i know...)
Bug 225245 is also connected..

And i mean this 'memory insufficient', 'cannot assign memory' stuff..
There is more than enough memory...

_Ahem_ yes I can understand you have somehow a problem and I'm pretty
sure you know best that there is enough disk space for installing this
package. But I'm terribly sorry I don't know how I can be of help here ?

sax2-libsax is an ordinary package nothing special. As I said the
dependencies aren't cyclic so what do you expect me to do here ?
I'm clueless ;)

I think right now your system is in a state where nobody can say
something helpful. I would like to suggest to install a test system
from scratch and check whether the problem still exists or not

Well, it is not that i am having a 'real problem' so to speak...
It is just that i am testing SuSE 10.2, and that the 'bugs' i find report..
I do not know a single os that is without bugs, and also, i am testing for years now, all kinds of SW, and HW...
I am not helpless, or have heartproblems..
In that case i would do something else...
I like SuSE, it becomes 'fatter' by the day, but i understand that packages that are not realy needed, are going to be checked, and that she could loose some weight...

of course there is no OS without bugs and at least I really appreciate
the help of testers and interested people. The package we are talking
about here is somewhat important if people would like to use X on their
systems. Anyway I think this is not a sax or sax2-libsax package problem

I installed a x86_64 system on my test machine (new installation) and
couldn't reproduce the error mentioned in this bug. According to
comment #6 I think this should be addressed to YaST2

which means?

Robby, would it be possible to check the status of the machine when the problem occures? In particular I'm interested which processes consume which amount of memory, how many processes are running etc., simply information that is related to this problem...

You are right.
In fact is that package (sax2-libsax-8.1-83.x86_64.rpm)an upgrade for sax2-libsax-8.1-81.x86_64.rpm.
Smart upgraded the package without any problem..
Which also means, that if i am the only one having trouble with this, this bug can also be closed..

Our messages 'crossed midair'...
Besides that, i was to quick taking your answer as: try installing it another way..

Package installed with smart.