Re: Bug#285774: installation report (d-i fails on console-common_0.7.47_all.deb)
On Wednesday 15 December 2004 18:37, Alexandros Papadopoulos wrote:
> I'd appreciate help on tracking/reproducing the bug. I've now done ~10
> installs on the same machine, and the necessary condition for the bug
> to appear seems to be a small (1GB) root partition and no swap
> partition. I'm certain I'm not running out of HD space, but could this
> be triggered by low memory?
It seems extremely likely that not defining a swap partition is causing
all these problems. As Debian Installer runs entirely from memory, it is
very much possible to run out of memory, especially if you also use extra
memory for RAID processes.
Looking at the logs, it seems to me that the failures occur when memory
intensive processes are run.
If you want to check this, switch to VT2 while base-installation is
running and do cat /proc/meminfo a few times...
You should also remember that all packages that are installed from the CD
are first copied to /var on your harddisk, so a 1GB root partition is on
the small side if you don't specify a separate var partition.
I am closing this bug report as you seem to be causing the problems
yourself by creating conditions that don't allow the installer to
function normally.
Cheers,
FJP
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