Re: dpkg issues
Sean 'Shaleh' Perry, 2001-Jul-21 18:50 -0700:
>
> On 21-Jul-2001 Jeff Coppock wrote:
> > Not specific to the laptop, but a problem nonetheless...
> >
> > I'm running woody with a 2.4.6 kernel. Installed off the
> > internet and all went well. Now, for some reason, when I try
> > to install new software, it fetches okay and starts unpacking
> > and then...
> >
> > corrupted filesystem tarfile - corrupted package archive
> >
> > or it unpacks and installs okay, but I get a Segmentation
> > fault when I run it.
> >
> > Any ideas? This is killing me!
> >
>
> icky! have you tried a different kernel? Other choices are hardware in the
> machine.
I think I've found my problem. Not enough memory to go
around. This is an old machine with only 32MB of memory and
watch top while running apt-get install I can see available
memory drop to 1.2MB and then the error hit. I'm upgrading to
128MB (max for this system) and expect this to fix it.
jc
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Jeff Coppock Nortel Networks
Systems Engineer http://nortelnetworks.com
Major Accts. Santa Clara, CA
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