[Problem][ZOSS][CentOS 5.2] Cannot install, weird java-related errors.

[Porky]

This is a transcript from the error log.

Preparing packages for installation...
zimbra-core-5.0.7_GA_2444.RHEL5-20080626020941
Error occurred during initialization of VM
Could not reserve enough space for object heap
Could not create the Java virtual machine.
error: %post(zimbra-core-5.0.7_GA_2444.RHEL5-20080626020941.i386) scriptlet failed, exit status 1

I've been searching the forums for the different errors but i can't find anything related. I'm trying to install it on a Media Temple (dv) box.

Please tell me if there's anything else i should add to this post!

[jholder]

how much ram do you have? And swap doesn't count

[Porky]

cat /proc/meminfo says

MemTotal:       689496 kB
MemFree:        669836 kB
Buffers:             0 kB
Cached:              0 kB
SwapCached:          0 kB
Active:              0 kB
Inactive:            0 kB
HighTotal:           0 kB
HighFree:            0 kB
LowTotal:       689496 kB
LowFree:        669836 kB
SwapTotal:           0 kB
SwapFree:            0 kB
Dirty:               0 kB
Writeback:           0 kB
Mapped:              0 kB
Slab:                0 kB
CommitLimit:         0 kB
Committed_AS:        0 kB
PageTables:          0 kB
VmallocTotal:        0 kB
VmallocUsed:         0 kB
VmallocChunk:        0 kB

Should be enough i think.

[Porky]

I also get this error during install:

zimbra-core......zimbra-core-5.0.7_GA_2444.RHEL5-20080626020941.i386.rpm...FAILED
###ERROR###

zimbra-core-5.0.7_GA_2444.RHEL5-20080626020941.i386.rpm installation failed

Installation cancelled

[jholder]

Can you run this:
free -m


Also, can you please post your install log?

[mmorse]

Welcome to the forums,

Originally Posted by porky

MemTotal: 689496 kB

689496 kilobytes = 673.335938 megabytes = 0.657554626 gigabytes

Give it at least 1GB - your swap total is also reporting nothing allocated, might give it a little bit...

System Requirements - Small Systems
Making Zimbra run on minimal RAM - Zimbra :: Wiki
FYI the Zimbra system requirements list 1.5GB - 2GB as minimum.

[jholder]

Originally Posted by mmorse

Welcome to the forums,

689496 kilobytes = 673.335938 megabytes = 0.657554626 gigabytes

Give it at least 1GB - your swap total is also reporting nothing allocated, might give it a little bit...

System Requirements - Small Systems
Making Zimbra run on minimal RAM - Zimbra :: Wiki
FYI the Zimbra system requirements list 1.5GB - 2GB as minimum.

That's actually enough to create a VM. On my parallels, I use 314 MB total ram with RHEL 4.
It could be RAM, but if the server didn't install to begin with, then the VM won't be created

[mmorse]

Well while waiting for some logs from /tmp figured I would address the 'if you plan to use this for a production setup you may want to increase the ram a bit' aspect - granted I don't know if this is just for personal.
Can't say I've even attempted to use as low as 300MB recently - my test vm's are usually 512MB, 768MB, or 1GB typically RHEL5 (on CentOS) or Ubuntu6.

(mt) Media Temple - (dv) Dedicated-Virtual Server : Pricing - good company - though might hold on shelling out another $30/mo on top of the $120/mo (+ if you have other add-ons) till we can nail down the issue of course.

[Porky]

Sorry for the late reply, timezones suck.

free -m shows this

             total       used       free     shared    buffers     cached
Mem:           673         11        661          0          0          0
-/+ buffers/cache:         11        661
Swap:            0          0          0

Since its a virtual machine i think the swap partition is shared, ie it should be 20gb.

Thanks for all the help and links, I truly appreciate this!

[warning9]

Is this something you are able to change with Media Temple's service, because I think I'm having the exact same problem with my (dv).