This might be more appropriately posted to a group that cares about the VM you're using, since it's obviously a VM bug.
Not everyone on this list has ever even built Android, nor would they care to, and using a VM with 512Mb of RAM to do development doesn't seem wise regardless. Tim On 6/17/2011 1:20 PM, Vitalie Vrabie wrote: > for those who feel very tough and are eager to reproduce this with any > VM solution, here are the steps: > > 1. create a fresh vm, give it 512m ram, 1 core 1 thread cpu, 20g hdd. > 2. install ubuntu 11.04 in it, let it partition the hdd automagically > (no idea how much swap it allocates, probably 512m too). > 3. (optional) run an update on ubuntu. > 4. install all the required packages as described in > http://source.android.com/source/initializing.html > 5. checkout froyo "-b froyo", as said in > http://source.android.com/source/downloading.html > 6. try to compile, as described in > http://source.android.com/source/building.html > 7. after about 8 hours on a xeon 2.4ghz you will end up with a frozen > (not really frozen, but as described by Jason Gerecke) ubuntu. > 8. "power off" the VM. > 9. start it again. > 10. after some tine, ubuntu will try to update, but will fail *any* > attempt to manipulate the packages. > 11. usually at this point enlightenment comes. :) > 12. yes, we fit in under a dozen steps! > > On Fri, Jun 17, 2011 at 9:31 PM, Linux Box Solutions > <[email protected] <mailto:[email protected]>> wrote: > > Use a paid for VM management system and not those crap free > downloads and you'll see the difference use something professional > if you trying to do a professionals job no something home users > use to learn and experience from > > www.YouTube.com/user/linuxboxsolution > <http://www.YouTube.com/user/linuxboxsolution> > www.Krzyview.com <http://www.Krzyview.com> > www.Email-Marketers.com <http://www.Email-Marketers.com> > > > On Jun 17, 2011, at 1:37 PM, Jason Gerecke <[email protected] > <mailto:[email protected]>> wrote: > > > I've actually been seeing similar issues under VirtualBox 4.0.8 > r71778 > > with a virtual quad-core 64-bit Ubuntu 11.04 guest and 64-bit > Windows > > 7 host. However, in my case, the VM seems to kinda-freeze (its > hard to > > describe -- the VM isn't locked up, but it doesn't really respond to > > most input) for no apparent reason. High memory pressure, or > not; high > > CPU load or not. I haven't had a problem with other guests (Ubuntu > > 10.11, Arch Linux, RHEL6, etc) though to be honest I haven't been > > working with them as much recently... > > > > Since I have to reset the VM every-so-often, I've enabled full > > journaling on the VMs ext4 disks. Perhaps your package manager's > files > > got corrupted when you reset the machine? > > > > Also, I'll mirror the comments that 512MB of RAM isn't going to be > > enough -- my VM was swapping up a storm when compiling with "-j4". > > Allocating 1 GB seemed to have solved the swapping issue, though the > > more the merrier. > > > > Jason > > > > --- > > Day xee-nee-svsh duu-'ushtlh-ts'it; > > nuu-wee-ya' duu-xan' 'vm-nvshtlh-ts'it. > > Huu-chan xuu naa~-gha. > > > > > > On Fri, Jun 17, 2011 at 10:18 AM, Vitalie Vrabie > > <[email protected] <mailto:[email protected]>> wrote: > >> what can i say... > >> i really feel very happy this happened in a vm and not on my > host os. > >> despite its age, linux is not mature enough to live outside VMs. > >> sad but true. > >> > >> On Fri, Jun 17, 2011 at 6:27 PM, Linux Box Solutions > >> <[email protected] > <mailto:[email protected]>> wrote: > >>> > >>> Agreed > >>> > >>> www.YouTube.com/user/linuxboxsolution > <http://www.YouTube.com/user/linuxboxsolution> > >>> www.Krzyview.com <http://www.Krzyview.com> > >>> www.Email-Marketers.com <http://www.Email-Marketers.com> > >>> > >>> On Jun 17, 2011, at 11:17 AM, Al Sutton <[email protected] > <mailto:[email protected]>> wrote: > >>> > >>> Sounds like you're getting a little too emotional now. > >>> In a nutshell; Get some more RAM. You'll probably need 10+GB > to give 8GB > >>> to the build. > >>> Beyond that I'm afraid to tell you your view of OSes, VMs, and > what should > >>> be and should happen is, unfortunately, unlikely to have any > effect on the > >>> situation. > >>> Enjoy, > >>> > >>> Al. > >>> -- > >>> T: @alsutton W: www.funkyandroid.com <http://www.funkyandroid.com> > >>> > >>> The views expressed in this email are those of the author and not > >>> necessarily those of Funky Android Limited, it's associates, or > >>> it's subsidiaries. > >>> On 17 Jun 2011, at 16:14, Vitalie Vrabie wrote: > >>> > >>> oh is it the vm? > >>> or rather this supposed-to-be os, which turns out to be just > an insult to > >>> humanity? > >>> > >>> no ram - fail the allocation, fail the compiling. > >>> but dont write swap over fs. > >>> > >>> On Fri, Jun 17, 2011 at 5:36 PM, Al Sutton > <[email protected] <mailto:[email protected]>> wrote: > >>>> > >>>> Because a Machine Emulators can have bugs, and running them > low on RAM > >>>> and Swap is never a good idea. > >>>> I ended up getting a refund from one vendor of a VM solution > because I > >>>> saw disk corruption every time a shut down particular VMs. > >>>> Al. > >>>> -- > >>>> T: @alsutton W: www.funkyandroid.com > <http://www.funkyandroid.com> > >>>> > >>>> The views expressed in this email are those of the author and not > >>>> necessarily those of Funky Android Limited, it's associates, or > >>>> it's subsidiaries. > >>>> On 17 Jun 2011, at 15:19, Vitalie Vrabie wrote: > >>>> > >>>> not the case of this xeon. > >>>> > >>>> physical ram is 1.5G, vm is 512, lots of swap space in the > vm, make -j1 > >>>> > >>>> still dont understand HOW A COMPILE PROCESS CAN MES UP THE > PACKAGE SYSTEM > >>>> OF UBUNTU. :( > >>>> > >>>> On Fri, Jun 17, 2011 at 5:12 PM, Al Sutton > <[email protected] <mailto:[email protected]>> wrote: > >>>>> > >>>>> 32 bit OSes can address more than 4GB using PAE ( > >>>>> http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Physical_Address_Extension ). > >>>>> > >>>>> Al. > >>>>> -- > >>>>> T: @alsutton W: www.funkyandroid.com > <http://www.funkyandroid.com> > >>>>> > >>>>> The views expressed in this email are those of the author > and not > >>>>> necessarily those of Funky Android Limited, it's associates, > or it's > >>>>> subsidiaries. > >>>>> > >>>>> On 17 Jun 2011, at 15:06, Linux Box Solutions wrote: > >>>>> > >>>>>> No it doesn't a limitation of 32 bit systems is 4gb max > >>>>>> > >>>>>> www.YouTube.com/user/linuxboxsolution > <http://www.YouTube.com/user/linuxboxsolution> > >>>>>> www.Krzyview.com <http://www.Krzyview.com> > >>>>>> www.Email-Marketers.com <http://www.Email-Marketers.com> > >>>>>> > >>>>>> > >>>>>> On Jun 17, 2011, at 10:03 AM, Alessandro Pellizzari > <[email protected] <mailto:[email protected]>> > >>>>>> wrote: > >>>>>> > >>>>>>> Il Fri, 17 Jun 2011 16:53:37 +0300, Vitalie Vrabie ha scritto: > >>>>>>> > >>>>>>>> where've you seen 8g on 32bit??? > >>>>>>> > >>>>>>> Linux 32bit supports 64 GB of RAM. > 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