On 02 Aug, 2004, at 16:07, Zaq Rizer wrote:
Curtis Vaughan wrote:
On 02 Aug, 2004, at 13:59, Zachary Rizer wrote:
--- Curtis Vaughan <curtis@npc-usa.com> wrote:
Whenever I try to install any package or update, I
get an error,
details of which are provided below.
This is just an example of the point at which an
upgrade terminates.
Preparing to replace base-files 3.0.16 (using
.../base-files_3.1_i386.deb) ...
dpkg: error processing
/var/cache/apt/archives/base-files_3.1_i386.deb
(--unpack):
fork failed: Cannot allocate memory
dpkg: error while cleaning up:
fork failed: Cannot allocate memory
dpkg: error while cleaning up:
fork failed: Cannot allocate memory
Errors were encountered while processing:
/var/cache/apt/archives/base-files_3.1_i386.deb
Processing was halted because there were too many
errors.
E: Sub-process /usr/bin/dpkg returned an error
code (1)
Any ideas what's up and how to fix it?
Curtis Vaughan
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It's exactly what it says it is: You're out of memory.
I don't think that's possible:
Filesystem Size Used Avail Use% Mounted on
/dev/hda2 37G 23G 12G 66% /
proc 0 0 0 - /proc
sysfs 0 0 0 - /sys
devpts 0 0 0 - /dev/pts
tmpfs 59M 0 59M 0% /dev/shm
/dev/hdb1 37G 23G 13G 66% /music
Curtis Vaughan
No...I said "memory". Memory != Storage.
Memory is RAM, not hard drive space.
Try 'free -m', instead of 'df -h'.
Regards,
Zaq
Oh, man! Here's my output of 'free -m':
Mem: 116 112 4 0 1 35
-/+ buffers/cache: 75 41
Swap: 0 0 0
and here's what 'top' shows:
Mem: 119048k total, 115540k used, 3508k free, 1896k buffers
Swap: 0k total, 0k used, 0k free, 35804k cached
Why don't I have any swap memory?
Curtis