On Mi, 28 nov 12, 18:33:43, Richard Owlett wrote: > > 1st trial, 1st install, 1st try > no swap, after "su & password" attempted "apt-get install gdm3 > gedit gparted" > result - massive crash The error messages would have been very useful. > as there had been warning message of strangeness possible without > SWAP, not surprised How much RAM does your test machine have? Assuming lack of memory is the problem apt-get might have been killed by the OOM killer and as far as I know this is logged. (On OpenWRT one can see it with 'dmesg', don't know about Debian). Kind regards, Andrei -- Offtopic discussions among Debian users and developers: http://lists.alioth.debian.org/mailman/listinfo/d-community-offtopic
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