Re: aptitude dying?
On Sat, Sep 20, 2008 at 12:25:51PM +0200, Johannes wrote:
> Hi all,
>
> on my etch I 'suddenly' get a very funny behaviour when running aptitude:
>
> 11:36:30-jw@johannes2:~$ aptitude search pppoe
> terminate called after throwing an instance of 'std::bad_alloc'
> what(): St9bad_alloc
I get that sometimes too. Don't know why, but as root a:
echo 1000000000 > /proc/sys/kernel/shmmax
seems to cure it.
For the record; my command is $ apt-cache search <package>
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