Re: dpkg issues

["Sean 'Shaleh' Perry" <shalehperry@home.com>]

>    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.
>    

that seems odd.  I have run Debian on 16 and 32 mb systems fairly recently.  It
just gets slower and slower .....

I still think this is a kernel issue.  The memory may make it go away, but I do
not believe it is the true cause.