or disable xserver....
I also have seen the strange behaviour that with xserver stopped and a
swapfile of 128MB, i could not opkg upgrade navit, but when I typed "opkg
install navit" it did work

but that can be 100% coincidence

On Mon, Jul 6, 2009 at 3:59 PM, Xavier Cremaschi <[email protected]>wrote:

> Robin Paulson a écrit :
> > 2009/7/6 Christ van Willegen <[email protected]>:
> >> On Sat, Jul 4, 2009 at 1:09 PM, Jeffrey
> >> Ratcliffe<[email protected]> wrote:
> >>> It works if you set up a swapfile.
> >> Having to set up a swap file for an .ipk file of 3M in size still
> >> seems unreasonable...
> >
> > the ipk i installed was over 5MB - i presume it expands to some huge
> > size and is stored in ram. i tried the --tmpdir switch (which i
> > assumed would unpack it straight to disk rather than to ram) but that
> > didn't help at all
>
>
> dd if=/dev/zero of=/path/to/swapfile bs=1M count=128
> mkswap /path/to/swapfile
> swapon /path/to/swapfile
>
> then retry.
>
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