Topic: Error upgrading from V5.5 to v5.6

[Gary Kenny]

Hi,

I am getting an error when trying to upgrade from v5.5 of E-Smith to v5.6.

After typing 'upgrade', the installation identifies the changed packages to install.

After this process preparing to install is displayed. The installation soon terminates with a message 'memory alloc (12 bytes) returned NULL'.

All processes are terminated and the CD is ejected.

Anybody seen this before?

Cheers,

Gary

[AndyJ]

I did see this when installing the upgrade on a VMWare virtual machine (I test this stuff before putting it on actual servers). It seemed to be memory related as when I upped the system memory from 48Mb to 96Mb it all installed perfectly.

Do you have enough RAM on your system? 5.6 is based on the 2.4.xx kernels and probably has a higher RAM requirement.

[Gary Kenny]

Hi Andy,

Have you any idea what the recommended specification is for the 2.4.xx kernel?

I think that this machine is a P166 with 64MB RAM.

Cheers,

Gary

[Brian Barber]

I experienced the same thing when upgrading from 5.1.2 to 5.6.  My machine is a P200 with 64MB RAM.

Time for a bug report?

BB

[Gary Kenny]

I successfully complete a full install Redhat 7.3 on the same machine listed above. It seems like an anomily in the E-Smith installation.

[Brian Barber]

I submitted a bug report yesterday.  Hopefully it gets some attention.

BB

[bruce harding]

I just tried to do an install on a machine with the same configuration and it just failed with the same error.

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bruce

[Brian Barber]

1) Perform a backup to desktop or tape.
2) Perform an install, not an upgrade
3) Restore the backed up file archive.

Robert is your father's brother.

I reported this as a bug and the fine folks at Mitel know that this is a problem with upgrading.  I guess that the minimum memory requirements have increased with the latest version.

BB