https://bugzilla.novell.com/show_bug.cgi?id=773936 https://bugzilla.novell.com/show_bug.cgi?id=773936#c0 Summary: kernel-default 3.1.9+ on 12.1 needs more than the specified minimum amount of 512MB RAM. Classification: openSUSE Product: openSUSE.org Version: unspecified Platform: All OS/Version: All Status: NEW Severity: Normal Priority: P5 - None Component: Documentation AssignedTo: fs@suse.com ReportedBy: them4z@googlemail.com QAContact: adrian@suse.com Found By: --- Blocker: --- User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; Ubuntu; Linux i686; rv:14.0) Gecko/20100101 Firefox/14.0.1 (Sorry if this is bug is a duplicate or in the wrong category, I did my best.) 12.1's "kernel-default" package, at least from version 3.1.9-1.4.1 upwards, will OOM when only 512MB RAM and no swap are available. Flawed documentation is here: http://en.opensuse.org/Hardware_requirements -- I didn't just want to edit the page directly because I feared it would just be reverted as trolling. Ran into this on a VM with autoyast[0]: Installing with only the "install" repo enabled (kernel-default-3.1.0-1.2.1.x86_64) still works fine with 512MB, but any version from the "update" repo I tested OOMed on me. Actually, it only displays an error that "initrd creation failed", /dev/ will be incomplete and the bootloader won't be installed, but the cause -- the OOM -- is quite hidden in dmesg output only. (With 1024MB, it works. I haven't tested any amount of memory in between.) An additional problem was that the OOM wasn't visible from the (Auto)YaST or zypp/zypper logs, it will only appear in 'dmesg'. Reproducible: Always Steps to Reproduce: 1. Install on a machine with 512MB RAM and no swap and the update repo enabled. 2. (Auto)YaST will report that (mk?)initrd failed, YaST logs will only show that the rpm subprocess was killed, but not the reason, zypp log will show the kernel-default package install failed. Only 'dmesg' will finally show the OOM. 3. Installation failed, the machine won't find a bootloader. Actual Results: openSUSE/Kernel/Bootloader installation fails. Expected Results: openSUSE/Kernel/Bootloader installation succeeds. My odyssey of how I finally discovered this bug, including many other problems, has been documented at quite some length here: http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-autoinstall/2011-11/msg00018.html http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-autoinstall/2011-12/msg00004.html http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-autoinstall/2012-03/msg00030.html http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-autoinstall/2012-04/msg00001.html http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-autoinstall/2012-05/msg00007.html http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-autoinstall/2012-06/msg00005.html http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-autoinstall/2012-06/msg00015.html http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-autoinstall/2012-07/msg00023.html -- Configure bugmail: https://bugzilla.novell.com/userprefs.cgi?tab=email ------- You are receiving this mail because: ------- You are on the CC list for the bug.