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

[Kent West <westk@nicanor.acu.edu>]

Mitch Blevins wrote:
> 
> 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

Yes, have swap; and yes, was running Netscape. I had been able to run
dselect/select several times already during this particular session
while Netscape was running, so I didn't really suspect Netscape of being
the problem. At any rate, everything's working fine now after a reboot
(not to "fix" things "a la" Windows, but for another reason). I just now
ran dselect/select and have two Netscape Navigator windows open and the
Netscape Mail window open and this Netscape Message Composer window
open; if the problem resurfaces, I'll shut down all of Netscape and try
it and see what happens.

Thanks!