[Testing] gcc installation issue in Fedora-13-Live-Soas.iso image on Virtual Box

[Kushan Athukorala]

Hi Fred,

Thanks for the responses; I will try with enlarged memory.

Also I agree with Tomeu, actually I have already started setting up Fedora
13 separately and installing sugar and dev tools which give us more freedom
for our work.

Thanks Gary too.

Thank you,

Kushan


On Fri, Aug 6, 2010 at 3:02 AM, Frederick Grose <fgrose at gmail.com> wrote:

> Earlier responses:
>
>
> On Thu, Aug 5, 2010 at 19:10, Frederick Grose <fgrose at gmail.com> wrote:
> > On Thu, Aug 5, 2010 at 12:51 PM, kushan athukorala
>
> > <kushan.athukorala at gmail.com> wrote:
> >>
> >> Hello,
> >>
> >> I am using Fedora-13-Live-Soas.iso image on a Oracle Virtual Box for
> >> automated test designs for OLPC activities.
> >>
> >> When I try to 'yum install gcc', the system hangs while updating
> >> glibc-common library.
> >>
> >> Does anyone has faced this issue before and appreciate a solution if
> any?
> >>
> >> --
> >> Cheers,
> >> Kushan Athukorala
> >
> > Boosting available memory and storage space may make a difference.
> > See
> http://wiki.sugarlabs.org/go/Sugar_on_a_Stick/VirtualBox/Preparing_a_disk_image#Installing_VirtualBox_Guest_Additions
>  for
> > some experiences.
> > Enlarging the overlay size with --overlay-size-mb 1024 and the VM memory
> > allocation may help provide "headroom" for the installation.
> >    --Fred
>
> I agree, but even then, I don't recommend using soas for that. What
> about just installing Fedora 13 then install sugar, development tools,
> etc?
>
> Regards,
>
> Tomeu
>
> On Thu, Aug 5, 2010 at 1:27 PM, Gary Martin <garycmartin at googlemail.com>wrote:
>
>> Hi Kushan,
>>
>>
>> On 5 Aug 2010, at 17:51, kushan athukorala <kushan.athukorala at gmail.com>
>> wrote:
>>
>>
>> Hello,
>>
>> I am using Fedora-13-Live-Soas.iso image on a Oracle Virtual Box for
>> automated test designs for OLPC activities.
>>
>> When I try to 'yum install gcc', the system hangs while updating
>> glibc-common library.
>>
>>
>> I've  not installed gcc, but for me usually that is a sign that yum has
>> run out of memory. The various builds don't usually have any swap memory set
>> as solid-state memory doesn't last as long when used for many/repeated write
>> cycles. That's also one of the reasons yum is not usually used for regular
>> users to upgrade and install activities in Sugar.
>>
>
> If SoaS is booted on a computer with a Linux swap partition on its hard
> drive, SoaS will use it.
> See this extract from my SoaS boot.log:
>
> %G %G        Welcome to Fedora
>         Press 'I' to enter interactive startup.
> Starting udev: udevd-work[693]: '/usr/bin/vmmouse_detect' unexpected exit
> with status 0x000b
>
> udevd-work[696]: '/usr/bin/vmmouse_detect' unexpected exit with status
> 0x000b
>
> %G [60G[  OK  ]
> Setting hostname localhost.localdomain:  [60G[  OK  ]
> Setting up Logical Volume Management:   No volume groups found
> [60G[  OK  ]
> Checking filesystems
> [60G[  OK  ]
> Mounting local filesystems:  [60G[  OK  ]
> Enabling local filesystem quotas:  [60G[  OK  ]
> Enabling /etc/fstab swaps:  [60G[  OK  ]
> Entering non-interactive startup
> Enabling swap partition /dev/sda5 [60G[  OK  ]
> Mounting persistent /home Remounting live store r/w [60G[  OK  ]
> [60G[  OK  ]
>
> Also, one may test with this command:
>
> [root at localhost ~]# cat /proc/swaps
> Filename                Type        Size    Used    Priority
> /dev/sda5                               partition    2940920    0    -1
>
> Though, this doesn't apply directly to a virtual machine, which probably
> has memory managed by the host.
>
>     --Fred
>
>
> Make sure you have just Terminal open in Sugar to save memory, or even
>> better, run you from the text console, ctrl+alt+F1 (ctrl+alt+F3 to get back
>> to the Sugar GUI again). Heavy users of yum often add an extra sd card or
>> USB, and set that as swap space, though your test environment will behave
>> somewhat differently in high memory use situations.
>>
>> --Gary
>>
>> Does anyone has faced this issue before and appreciate a solution if any?
>>
>> --
>> Cheers,
>> Kushan Athukorala
>>
>> OLPC Automation Team
>> Virtusa QA
>>
>>
>
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-- 
Cheers,
Kushan Athukorala

OLPC Automation Team
Virtusa QA
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