[Server-devel] Anaconda installs OOM with selinux-policy-targeted rpm from F9 updates

[Martin Langhoff]

On Fri, Nov 7, 2008 at 9:49 AM, Daniel J Walsh <dwalsh at redhat.com> wrote:
> selinux-policy-targeted is a memory hog, but it should not have changed
> that drastically in updates.
>
> Is this repeatable?

100% repeatable on the 3 attempts on the lower-mem machine. On the same machin

The package  selinux-policy-targeted 3.3.1 103.fc9 -- I am running a
couple of additional installs to gather more information.

On Fri, Nov 7, 2008 at 9:59 AM, Chris Lumens <clumens at redhat.com> wrote:
>>  - Anaconda OOMs without a warning or useful message to the user
>
> I don't believe there's any way for anaconda to know this, and there's
> certainly no way for us to do anything about it.

Well, the behaviour is really weird. Perhaps there is no OOM killer in
place during an anaconda install? If there was, it'd expect the rpm
process or anaconda to be shot down -- but the machine is halting
instead, it literally switches off.

Whatever is bootstrapping anaconda (init script in the initrd?) should
be able to at least see the odd exit status and echo a "something went
wrong" msg...? Maybe that's the problem?

cheers,



m
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