[Bug Report] Issue with ESP-IDF Installation (EIM-402)

[AlexGadd]

System Information

• OS info: OS: Ubuntu 24.4.0 | Architecture: aarch64 | Kernel: aarch64
• App Version: 0.6.0

Description

Please describe the issue you encountered:

Steps to Reproduce

1.Start install via sudo apt install eim
2. open EIM and run the easy installation
3. wait

Expected Behavior

installation

Actual Behavior

crashes immediately after installing the tools

Logs

Please attach logs from the app logs folder.

Additional Information

running ubuntu in a virtual machine via parallels

eim.log
eim_gui_log.log

[Hahihula]

Hi @AlexGadd,
thank you for the detailed report and for trying out EIM.

Unfortunately, we haven’t tested the installer inside Parallels yet, so we can’t fully guarantee correct behavior in that environment. That said, we can confirm that the installer is generally working well on Ubuntu virtual machines launched via UTM or VirtualBuddy, including recent Ubuntu versions.

Looking at the provided logs, sadly they don’t give us a clear indication of an internal failure. From what we can see, it looks like the EIM process was externally terminated, rather than crashing due to an application-level error.

Could you please provide the output of dmesg from right after the crash occurs? That might help us identify whether the process was killed by the OS (for example, by the OOM killer).

One possible cause could indeed be memory limitations. Some parts of the ESP-IDF tools installation are quite memory-intensive and can temporarily require ~4 GB of RAM. We’re not entirely sure how Parallels manages memory allocation and limits for Linux VMs, and it’s possible the VM is running into a memory cap during installation.

Thanks again for reporting this — the additional logs will help us investigate further 👍

[AlexGadd]

Ah, looks like it could be a ram related issue, I hadn’t checked dmesg yet. [ 314.656108] ***@***.*** ***@***.***>/app.slice/app-gnome-eim-3849.scope,task=eim,pid=3849,uid=1000 [ 314.656131] Out of memory: Killed process 3849 (eim) total-vm:77827492kB, anon-rss:1094276kB, file-rss:3148kB, shmem-rss:0kB, UID:1000 pgtables:5908kB oom_score_adj:100 I adjusted the amount of RAM available to 8gb, but now I get this error instead (logs also attached): Error Details: Failed to install Python environment: failed to create venv: It appears this is related to the way I’ve installed python venv (which if I’m honest I don’t know what the expected method is as I couldn’t find any documentation on this) Installing it via pip gives a different error but it still fails to create the virtual environment, whereas installing it via apt gives this error - as though the package wasn’t installed at all, but that’s likely because I haven’t added it to the path, but I gave up trying to figure how to do that. The package I installed via apt was python13.10-venv when I was using ubuntu 22.04, with this attempt I was using 24.04, and I can’t remember if I installed pyvenv Let me know if the link doesn’t work https://www.icloud.com/attachment/?u=https%3A%2F%2Fcvws.icloud-content.com%2FB%2FAZM71ouDTiJy2i7x5OoKx8JlKsWUARnSgR_-xMcwu8rv15EVZFTjntXg%2F%24%7Bf%7D%3Fo%3DAlSeTQJzzn3Mlcbu3yNUfhwGJvB_FumKx_0GGDr5FeeO%26v%3D1%26x%3D3%26a%3DCAogI_EbFn4anZw3VooodOJa5fwucPYO3XhUNRGVoERfpJYSaxCq9pfutjMYqoaTwsAzIgEAUgRlKsWUWgTjntXgaiUKAPTp6EcHJFKHbe8pwtaPPx-s-rf-KhDmqGsD9L1jRm0aNxLHciU0UMtmzzNWkWJY50YE6K_ccV_Buqm8CtoX30y6q9DlVgq21F-4%26e%3D1769665250%26fl%3D%26r%3D852BA057-7860-45BC-A401-470381CE27E9-1%26k%3D%24%7Buk%7D%26ckc%3Dcom.apple.clouddocs%26ckz%3DiCloud.me.damir.dropover-mac%26p%3D71%26s%3DYbTLusC7TK_3gXo1QMRktOaeJTg&uk=UU6lLTiObFOuHEqia5g_tw&f=Archive.zip&sz=1134018 iCloud icloud.com

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On 29 Dec 2025, at 10:43 PM, Hahihula ***@***.***> wrote: Hahihula left a comment (espressif/idf-im-ui#318) <#318 (comment)> Hi @AlexGadd <https://github.com/AlexGadd>, thank you for the detailed report and for trying out EIM. Unfortunately, we haven’t tested the installer inside Parallels yet, so we can’t fully guarantee correct behavior in that environment. That said, we can confirm that the installer is generally working well on Ubuntu virtual machines launched via UTM or VirtualBuddy, including recent Ubuntu versions. Looking at the provided logs, sadly they don’t give us a clear indication of an internal failure. From what we can see, it looks like the EIM process was externally terminated, rather than crashing due to an application-level error. Could you please provide the output of dmesg from right after the crash occurs? That might help us identify whether the process was killed by the OS (for example, by the OOM killer). One possible cause could indeed be memory limitations. Some parts of the ESP-IDF tools installation are quite memory-intensive and can temporarily require ~4 GB of RAM. We’re not entirely sure how Parallels manages memory allocation and limits for Linux VMs, and it’s possible the VM is running into a memory cap during installation. Thanks again for reporting this — the additional logs will help us investigate further 👍 — Reply to this email directly, view it on GitHub <#318 (comment)>, or unsubscribe <https://github.com/notifications/unsubscribe-auth/ACDZIZR5EBYNJDR4GVBUGGL4EDZVNAVCNFSM6AAAAACQHBBZ3CVHI2DSMVQWIX3LMV43OSLTON2WKQ3PNVWWK3TUHMZTMOJWGAYDEOBRGE>. You are receiving this because you were mentioned.