Re: Broken "Select" in dselect (typos removed)

[Mitch Blevins <mblevin@mindspring.com>]

In foo.debian-user, you wrote:
> Hi All.
> 
> This just started today, after doing a dselect/Update off of www.debian.org
> stable main, contrib, and non-free. Now when I run dselect and go into the
> Select option, the program just quits with the message:
> 
>  dselect: failed to create baselist pad: Cannot allocate memory
> 
> This is on a 32MB AMDK6-233; one partition with 235MB still free. Kernel is
> 2.0.36.
> 
> Any clues?

Do you have a swap partition?  Are you running any other memory-hogging
applications at the same time? (like Netscape)

-Mitch