#5954 NORM Never A: oom-killer during olpc-update

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#5954: oom-killer during olpc-update
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 Reporter:  DanKrejsa               |       Owner:  jg            
     Type:  defect                  |      Status:  new           
 Priority:  normal                  |   Milestone:  Never Assigned
Component:  distro                  |     Version:                
 Keywords:  oom-killer olpc-update  |    Verified:  0             
 Blocking:                          |   Blockedby:                
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 I just tried olpc update from joyride-1500 to
 joyride-1525, on a G1G1 XO.  I ran

   sudo olpc-update joyride-1500

 from the terminal activity, and sometime during (or after) the
 irsync-dirty part of the update, X restarted.  I thought the laptop
 was rebooting, but examining /var/log/messages later I saw that
 'NetworkManager invoked oom-killer'.

 I've put the log at http://pastebin.ca/849111 .
 (Also attached.)

 I had no other activities than terminal (& Journal) running at the time,
 and wasn't touching the laptop.  I suspect there may be something random
 to this that may make it hard to reproduce.

 I later succeeded doing the update from a usb key using

 olpc-update --full --usb

 That could be a workaround if this happens frequently.

 I would guess there are two aspects to this -- the general handling
 of out-of-memory conditions by the XO, and the particular usage of memory
 during olpc-update that made the system run into the limit.

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