Bug 225814

Summary:	YaST runs out of memory as swap not enabled during network install via SSH
Product:	[openSUSE] openSUSE 10.2	Reporter:	Daniel Morris <danielm>
Component:	YaST2	Assignee:	E-mail List <bnc-team-screening>
Status:	RESOLVED INVALID	QA Contact:	Jiri Srain <jsrain>
Severity:	Normal
Priority:	P5 - None
Version:	RC 1
Target Milestone:	---
Hardware:	32bit
OS:	Other
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Description Daniel Morris 2006-12-04 17:28:24 UTC

System has "only" 192MiB of RAM installed and during YaST2's probing of existing system configuration the installer stops unexpectedly.

After attaching a monitor and repeating from the console I noticed that when the crash occurs the system has run out of free memory (from the output on the virtual consoles). The previous installation had a 512MiB swap partition configured, but the installer hadn't used it.

Entering the following command before YaST2 validated the configuration allowed the installation to proceed:-

'swapon /dev/hda1'

I found this problem when trying to make a headless update of a 9.3 test machine to opensuse-10.2rc1. DVD image was mounted via ftp on local subnet and the following entry in /boot/grub/menu.1st used to bootstrap the target

title Boot -- SUSE LINUX 10.2
root (hd0,1)
kernel /boot/vmlinuz.install noapic usessh=1 sshpassword="xxxxxxx" install=ftp:/// hostip=172.31.11.251 netmask=255.255.255.0 gateway=172.31.11.101 nameserver=172.31.11.250
initrd /boot/initrd.install

(kernel & initrd from opensuse-10.2rc1 dvd.iso).

Here's the output from the ssh log (not very helpful!).

inst-sys:~ # yast
unicode_start skipped on /dev/pts/0
Probing connected terminal...

Initializing virtual console...

Found an xterm terminal on /dev/pts/0 (80 columns x 35 lines).
*** Starting YaST2 ***
/usr/lib/YaST2/startup/YaST2.call: line 462: 3345 Killed $OPT_
FBITERM y2base "$Y2_MODULE_NAME" $Y2_MODE_FLAGS $Y2_MODULE_ARGS $Y2_MODE $Y2_UI_
ARGS
*** Preparing SSH installation for reboot ***
*** NOTE: after reboot, you have to reconnect and call ***
*** /usr/lib/YaST2/startup/YaST2.ssh ***
unicode_stop skipped on /dev/pts/0

Comment 1 Cyril Hrubis 2006-12-05 17:31:56 UTC

Acording to http://en.opensuse.org/Installation_with_Little_Memory yast don't use swap partition before formating all the selected partitions ( then this behavior is normal ), so closing this bug as invalid.