Re: dpkg: Killed
On Wed, Mar 10, 2004 at 01:01:30PM +0000, Ketil Froyn wrote:
> I'm a beginner with debian, but not with linux. I installed debian from
> sarge-i386-netinst.iso dated 3 March. The install was fine (including
> installation of X and some other stuff), but now it seems I am unable to
> install software. I tried a couple of packages, and got the same
> problems. Here are the symptoms I see:
>
> o "apt-get upgrade" worked fine
> o "apt-get install gaim" downloaded packages, but then complained that
> a subprocess was killed unexpectedly
> o "dpkg -i gaim-<version>.deb" says: Killed
That suggests to me that you're out of memory. Check your system logs
for out-of-memory killer messages.
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Colin Watson [cjwatson@flatline.org.uk]
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