Re: [SOLVED??] Re: aptitude dying?
On Sun, Sep 21, 2008 at 03:02:29PM +0200, Johannes wrote:
> On 2008-09-20 22:14, Chris Bannister wrote:
> > 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>
>
> Thanks.
>
> For the record: today it works without that echo or anything else
> modified, as far as I can tell...
It only happens to me occasionally also. Although I have to do it every
time with "crafty" compiled from upstream source.
When it happens try a cat /proc/sys/kernel/shmmax and compare to one on
a good day although that won't tell you what's actually causing it.
--
Chris.
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