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Re: Athena 10 install problem
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Greg Hudson)
Fri Sep 12 14:53:26 2008
From: Greg Hudson <ghudson@MIT.EDU>
To: Alex T Prengel <alexp@mit.edu>
Cc: testers@mit.edu
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Date: Fri, 12 Sep 2008 14:52:36 -0400
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It's hard to diagnose a system freeze, but from the information given I
would guess that the machine ran out of memory running the installer
script. If that's the case I would suggest one of the following
workarounds:
1. Try a machine with more memory if possible.
2. Try reinstalling Ubuntu and then Athena 10, and this time, choose no
for the "cluster software" package.
3. Try reinstalling Ubuntu and make sure to create a swap partition of
at least 4GB in size this time. Then try installing Athena 10.
On Thu, 2008-09-11 at 13:26 -0400, Alex T Prengel wrote:
> Hi,
>
> I'm having trouble installing Athena 10 on my laptop running Ubuntu 8.04.
> I opted for a workstation install and chose Y for the "do you want to do
> development on this machine" question. I forget if there were any other
> options but I think I answered Y to everything.
>
> The install started off fine and ran for a while, then stopped at
> "Unpacking eclipse-source..." at which point the machine is completely
> frozen (no response from keyboard or mouse).
>
> The machine has 512 meg of memory and had at least 8 gig free disk when I
> started the install. It's an Averatec AV3250HX, with an AMD Mobile Athlon
> XP-M (LV) 2200+ CPU. I know it's lacking SSE2 instructions as that came up
> in another context.
>
> Alex
