Re: dpkg: Killed
On Wed, 2004-03-10 at 13:46, Colin Watson wrote:
> On Wed, Mar 10, 2004 at 01:01:30PM +0000, Ketil Froyn wrote:
> >
> > o "apt-get upgrade" worked fine
> > o "apt-get install gaim" downloaded packages, but then complained that
> > a subprocess was killed unexpectedly
> > o "dpkg -i gaim-<version>.deb" says: Killed
>
> That suggests to me that you're out of memory. Check your system logs
> for out-of-memory killer messages.
Thanks for the help, Colin! This wasn't directly it, but you were really
close... I (or the snapshot netinst CD) must have screwed something up
during installation, because my swap partition was not in use, and I had
no swap. I turned it on, and now everything works like a charm! Damn,
that wasn't the the most obvious place for me to look...:) Too bad a
clearer error message wasn't given.
I've also looked in my logs, but didn't find anything. I'd think this
should show any out of memory stuff:
debian:/var/log# grep -i out * | grep -i mem
debian:/var/log# grep -i oom *
debian:/var/log#
Anyway, it's sorted now, so thanks again!
Ketil
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