[solved] Re: dpkg needing to allocate 700MB of memory?
Cristian Gutierrez <crgutier@dcc.uchile.cl> writes:
>Hi all. I hope you can give me a clue about this:
>
>I got stuck trying to upgrade a package with apt, and then trying to do
>it with the downloaded package, with dpkg:
>
>/usr/bin/dpkg -i /var/cache/apt/archives/wajig_1.0.2-1_all.deb (Reading
>database ... dpkg: error processing
>/var/cache/apt/archives/wajig_1.0.2-1_all.deb (--install): malloc
>failed (774715603 bytes): Cannot allocate memory Errors were
[...]
>related messages in debian-dpkg, and I'm starting to guess there could
>be something b0rked on my disk after today's local power outage... :-(
Well, /var was corrupted, and /var/lib/dpkg/info/*.list had amazing
filesizes and whatnot. fsck did its scary job and now I'm reinstalling
some vital packages.
/me starts saving for an UPS...
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