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I have a PcEngines WRAP board, which has 64MB of memory and a CF disk. I normally do not need to run anything on this that requires a lot of memory and so I do not have any swap defined.
When I try to upgrade traceroute, dmidecode, file and libmagic1 to the current version on sid I get an error saying that lzma can not allocate memory. For traceroute the error I get is:-
Unpacking replacement traceroute ... dpkg-deb (subprocess): decompressing archive member: lzma error: Cannot allocate memory dpkg-deb: error: subprocess <decompress> returned error exit status 2
I found that I can set the memlimit on xz (and therefore lzma I believe) by prefixing the apt-get dist-upgrade with XZ_DEFAULTS=--memlimit=1MiB (yes I know thats not a lot, but these files are very small and there is only 19M free memory according to /proc/meminfo), but that does not fix the problem.
I could remove the CF card and attach it to my laptop and run apt-get update inside a chroot, but I only have that option because my laptop and the Wrap card are both x86 architecture - I also have other boards which are MIPS and ARM based and I am worried I might hit the same problem on them and I do not have a MIPS or ARM laptop/desktop/server to use.
Any ideas?
David |