[Bug 202959] Re: [hardy] generating locales stalls on 64mb ram

[Dan Kegel]

Still affects the alternate installer for Precise beta 1 on a machine
with 128MB of RAM.

May be a dup of http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=185010
which suggests doing
  echo 100 > /proc/sys/vm/swappiness
I tried that after half an hour, and after another five minutes, install got past that 
step, so perhaps it helped.

Bug 377242 may be a dup of this one.


** Bug watch added: Debian Bug tracker #185010
   http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=185010

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Title:
  [hardy] generating locales stalls on 64mb ram

Status in “debian-installer” package in Ubuntu:
  Confirmed
Status in “localechooser” package in Ubuntu:
  Invalid

Bug description:
  Binary package hint: base-installer

  I tried installing a German cmdline system in VMWare using hardy-alternate-i386.iso Alpha 6.
  All went well until "generating locales" ("Speichere Sprachen..." in German on screen), there was constant hard disk activity but the progress bar went no further than 75%.
  I tried numerous times.
  Then I tried with 128mb ram and it worked flawlessly.

  Has this to do with restructuring the language chooser? In Gutsy you
  had to choose language during install and it switched to "Low Memory
  Mode" when installing on 64mb ram. In Hardy you choose your language
  on the CD boot prompt and there's no more "Low Memory Mode".

  I will try to add a syslog to this bug report later.
  (I'm currently creating a low memory install script based on IceWM so I'd be quite dissappointed if Hardy drops 64mb support.)

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