Bug 449564

Summary:	Installation images are downloaded to RAM disk
Product:	[openSUSE] openSUSE 11.1	Reporter:	Ladislav Slezák <lslezak>
Component:	YaST2	Assignee:	Ladislav Slezák <lslezak>
Status:	RESOLVED FIXED	QA Contact:	Jiri Srain <jsrain>
Severity:	Critical
Priority:	P2 - High	CC:	coolo, locilka
Version:	RC 1	Flags:	coolo: SHIP_STOPPER+
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Description Ladislav Slezák 2008-11-27 07:21:44 UTC

During installation the signed/digested files are downloaded into RAM disk, which may cause out of memory problem and possibly crash Yast.

The problem is in pkg-bindings, the target root is not honored when downloading signed files.

And also Pkg::SourceReleaseAll() doesn't remove the downloaded files.

Comment 1 Ladislav Slezák 2008-11-27 07:52:20 UTC

Fixed in SVN

Comment 2 Stephan Kulow 2008-11-27 09:28:43 UTC

I wonder why not more people have noticed this rather severe problem. How new is it?

Comment 3 Lukas Ocilka 2008-11-27 09:31:49 UTC

This has been introduced by fixing bug #409927. Less than three weeks ago.

Comment 4 Lukas Ocilka 2008-11-27 09:32:55 UTC

See https://bugzilla.novell.com/show_bug.cgi?id=409927#c57

Comment 5 Ladislav Slezák 2008-11-27 09:34:24 UTC

It's been there since we switched to signed image files.

Actually it works when you have swap enabled or enough memory :-)

Comment 6 Stephan Kulow 2008-11-27 09:51:20 UTC

let's test driverupdate with this. What are the files I need to replace in the instsys?

Comment 7 Ladislav Slezák 2008-11-27 10:00:58 UTC

You need package yast2-pkg-bindings, file
/usr/lib{,64}/YaST2/plugin/libpy2Pkg.so.2.0.0

Comment 8 Ladislav Slezák 2008-11-27 10:06:06 UTC

I just have updated the fix, it downloads the files to the download area (instead of the target).

Submitted in yast2-pkg-bindings-2.17.29.