[Bug 680650] Re: fsck causes oops on xm because of no swap
The only fix I can see for this is to make sure linaro-media-create is always creating a swapfile when installing to certain known low-memory targets. We can do that one of two ways; we can make a default swap size part of the board config info (and have an override command-line option to disable, perhaps --no-swap?), or we can just update the documentation to mention how much memory is needed for a given image to run and expect users to set appropriate swap themselves. Reassigning to linaro-image-tools for consideration of the first option. (BTW, Tom, was there any particular evidence that fsck.ext3 was using more memory than reasonable here? Perhaps we should also be filing a bug task against e2fsprogs.) ** Project changed: linaro = linaro-image-tools -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/680650 Title: fsck causes oops on xm because of no swap -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list ubuntu-bugs@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs
[Bug 680650] Re: fsck causes oops on xm because of no swap
In an ideal world, we could document the RAM requirements of an image (like headless or ubuntu-netbook) and the size of RAM of the targeted board in a hwpack, and use these information to decide the size of the swap. Adding swap might not sound complex, but it can either be a swap file or a separate partition, we will have to align the partition properly, mkswap it, lookup its UUID etc., things close to what we do. In the mean time, I recommend that we document expected RAM requirements for each image, and request people to decide whether they need to pass --swap-size. I've added the ram_size informational field to the hardware packs v2 spec. -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/680650 Title: fsck causes oops on xm because of no swap -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list ubuntu-bugs@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs
[Bug 680650] Re: fsck causes oops on xm
Changing description to better describe the bug and moving to Linaro. ** Summary changed: - fsck causes oops on xm + fsck causes oops on xm because of no swap ** Also affects: linaro Importance: Undecided Status: New -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/680650 Title: fsck causes oops on xm because of no swap -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list ubuntu-bugs@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs
[Bug 680650] Re: fsck causes oops on xm because of no swap
CONFIG_SWAP is on in kernel so not a kernel bug. ** Changed in: linux-linaro (Ubuntu) Status: New = Invalid -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/680650 Title: fsck causes oops on xm because of no swap -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list ubuntu-bugs@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs
[Bug 680650] Re: fsck causes oops on xm because of no swap
** Changed in: linaro Importance: Undecided = High -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/680650 Title: fsck causes oops on xm because of no swap -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list ubuntu-bugs@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs
