On Tue, 21 Apr 2009 20:26:00 +0200 Hector Oron <hector.oron@gmail.com> wrote: > While trying to install x11-common on the target (NFS rootfs) using > apt-get. i hit this error... > > (Reading database ... 4358 files and directories currently installed.) > Unpacking x11-common (from .../x11-common_1%3a7.3+18em1_all.deb) ... > open2: fork failed: Cannot allocate memory at > /usr/share/perl5/Debconf/ConfModule.pm line 59 You shouldn't be using debconf if the system is that limited by available memory - you should be using cdebconf instead. i.e. Crush. Thereagain, if memory is that limited, shouldn't you try to avoid needing x11-common in the first place? > Is this a known issue? perl doesn't like running out of memory, that much is a known issue. How much memory is available on the device? Could this be related to maybe another application hogging the memory (NFS) ? How much available memory exists before you call apt/dpkg? -- Neil Williams ============= http://www.data-freedom.org/ http://www.nosoftwarepatents.com/ http://www.linux.codehelp.co.uk/
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