Re: dpkg fails to allocte memory ?
No I don't get any message reporting VM failure. But I did manage a fix by loging into single user mode and apt works just fine. I don't know why though. However I think it is time I upgrade to 2.2.18 :-). Please note the suggestions in the bug report that it may be a problem with locale did not work. Since I had tried to run kde after "unset LANG unset LC_CTYPE .... ".
b thomas
On Sat, Mar 17, 2001 at 02:01:37PM +0100, Moritz Schulte wrote:
> B Thomas <thomas.1037@osu.edu> writes:
>
> > malloc failed (65552 bytes): Cannot allocate memory
> > dpkg: failed to realloc for variable buffer: Cannot allocate memory
> > E: Sub-process /usr/bin/dpkg returned an error code (2)
>
> > Please note I have 128 Mb or ram and am able to run xfree86 and
> > other programs well.
>
> > My kernel version is 2.2.17 and the dpkg version is 1.6.14 .
>
> Linux 2.2.17 has some problems with virtual memory management. Perhaps
> the dpkg problem is related to this. Does linux log something like
> "VM: do_try_to_free_pages failed for [dpkg]"?
> I suggest to install Linux 2.2.18 + Andrea Arcangeli's
> VM-global-2.2.18pre25 Patch, which can be found on a kernel.org mirror
> under people/andrea or Linux >= 2.2.19pre2, which has this VM patch
> included.
>
> hth,
> moritz
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