FC6 -> F7 upgrade stalls

[Lonni J Friedman]

On 6/9/07, Paul Smith <phhs80 at gmail.com> wrote:
> On 6/9/07, Lonni J Friedman <netllama at gmail.com> wrote:
> > I'm attempting to upgrade a system from FC6 x86 to F7, and the upgrade
> > is stalling after installing a few packages every time.
> >
> > When I switch to a virtual console, I see that anaconda is consuming
> > 100% CPU, and in the upgrade.log the last few lines show assorted
> > packages with the error:
> > "Couldn't fork %post: Cannot allocate memory"
> >
> > This system has 384MB of RAM, so its not starved by any means.  Any
> > one have ideas?
>
> A lot of people have complained about installing F7. Maybe a yum
> installation may overcome the problems that you are experiencing. For
> details, see:
>
> http://marc.info/?l=fedora-list&m=118123328903053&w=2

actually, i think i figured it out.  Looks like its this bug:
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=242105


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