<div class="gmail_quote"><div class="im">Earlier responses:<br><br>On Thu, Aug 5, 2010 at 19:10, Frederick Grose <<a href="mailto:fgrose@gmail.com">fgrose@gmail.com</a>> wrote:<br> > On Thu, Aug 5, 2010 at 12:51 PM, kushan athukorala<br> > <<a href="mailto:kushan.athukorala@gmail.com">kushan.athukorala@gmail.com</a>> wrote:<br> >><br> >> Hello,<br> >><br> >> I am using Fedora-13-Live-Soas.iso image on a Oracle Virtual Box for<br> >> automated test designs for OLPC activities.<br> >><br> >> When I try to 'yum install gcc', the system hangs while updating<br> >> glibc-common library.<br> >><br> >> Does anyone has faced this issue before and appreciate a solution if any?<br> >><br> >> --<br> >> Cheers,<br> >> Kushan Athukorala<br> ><br> > Boosting available memory and storage space may make a difference.<br> > See <a href="http://wiki.sugarlabs.org/go/Sugar_on_a_Stick/VirtualBox/Preparing_a_disk_image#Installing_VirtualBox_Guest_Additions" target="_blank">http://wiki.sugarlabs.org/go/Sugar_on_a_Stick/VirtualBox/Preparing_a_disk_image#Installing_VirtualBox_Guest_Additions</a> for<br> > some experiences.<br> > Enlarging the overlay size with --overlay-size-mb 1024 and the VM memory<br> > allocation may help provide "headroom" for the installation.<br>> --Fred<br> <br> </div>I agree, but even then, I don't recommend using soas for that. What<br> about just installing Fedora 13 then install sugar, development tools,<br> etc?<br> <br> Regards,<br> <br> Tomeu<br><br>On Thu, Aug 5, 2010 at 1:27 PM, Gary Martin <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:garycmartin@googlemail.com" target="_blank">garycmartin@googlemail.com</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); padding-left: 1ex;"> <div bgcolor="#FFFFFF"><div>Hi Kushan,<div><br><br>On 5 Aug 2010, at 17:51, kushan athukorala <<a href="mailto:kushan.athukorala@gmail.com" target="_blank">kushan.athukorala@gmail.com</a>> wrote:<br><br></div> </div><div><div></div><blockquote type="cite"><div><span style="font-family: verdana,sans-serif;"><br>Hello,<br><br>I am using Fedora-13-Live-Soas.iso image on a Oracle Virtual Box for automated test designs for OLPC activities. </span><br style="font-family: verdana,sans-serif;"> <br style="font-family: verdana,sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: verdana,sans-serif;">When I try to 'yum install gcc', the system hangs while updating glibc-common library.</span><br style="font-family: verdana,sans-serif;"> </div></blockquote><div><br></div></div><div>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.<br> </div><div></div></div></blockquote><div><br></div><div>If SoaS is booted on a computer with a Linux swap partition on its hard drive, SoaS will use it.<br>See this extract from my SoaS boot.log:<br><br> %G %G Welcome to Fedora <br> Press 'I' to enter interactive startup. <br>Starting udev: udevd-work[693]: '/usr/bin/vmmouse_detect' unexpected exit with status 0x000b <br> <br>udevd-work[696]: '/usr/bin/vmmouse_detect' unexpected exit with status 0x000b <br> <br> %G [60G[ OK ] <br>Setting hostname localhost.localdomain: [60G[ OK ] <br>Setting up Logical Volume Management: No volume groups found <br> [60G[ OK ] <br>Checking filesystems <br> [60G[ OK ] <br>Mounting local filesystems: [60G[ OK ] <br>Enabling local filesystem quotas: [60G[ OK ] <br>Enabling /etc/fstab swaps: [60G[ OK ] <br>Entering non-interactive startup <br>Enabling swap partition /dev/sda5 [60G[ OK ] <br>Mounting persistent /home Remounting live store r/w [60G[ OK ] <br> [60G[ OK ] <br><br>Also, one may test with this command:<br><br>[root@localhost ~]# cat /proc/swaps<br>Filename Type Size Used Priority<br>/dev/sda5 partition 2940920 0 -1<br> <br>Though, this doesn't apply directly to a virtual machine, which probably has memory managed by the host.<br><br> --Fred<br><br><br></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); padding-left: 1ex;"> <div bgcolor="#FFFFFF"><div>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.</div> <div><br></div><font color="#888888"><div>--Gary</div></font><div><br><blockquote type="cite"><div><span style="font-family: verdana,sans-serif;">Does anyone has faced this issue before and appreciate a solution if any?</span><br clear="all"> <br>-- <br><font size="1"><font size="1"><span style="font-family: verdana,sans-serif; color: rgb(0, 0, 0);"><font size="2">Cheers,<br> Kushan Athukorala</font><br><br>OLPC Automation Team</span></font><br style="font-family: verdana,sans-serif; color: rgb(0, 0, 0);"><span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0);"><span style="font-family: verdana,sans-serif;">Virtusa</span></span> QA</font><br> </div></blockquote></div></div></blockquote></div><br>