On Mon, Nov 14, 2005 at 08:44:57PM -0800, Steve Langasek wrote: > On Mon, Nov 14, 2005 at 10:16:05PM -0500, Antonio RodrÃguez wrote: > > Package: nmap > > Version: nmap_3.93-1.0.1_i386.deb > > Severity: grave > > Justification: renders package unusable > > This is not a bug in nmap. It is not even a bug in dpkg, unless you can > show that this really is a reproducible bug that's not caused by a lack of > resources on your system. > > > and I have enough memory and room: > > > df -h > > Filesystem Size Used Avail Use% Mounted on > > /dev/hda7 15G 4.7G 9.1G 34% / > > /dev/hda1 9.4G 63M 8.9G 1% /boot > > /dev/hda5 109G 51G 53G 50% /home > > /dev/hda6 15G 2.2G 12G 16% /var > > tmpfs 252M 0 252M 0% /dev/shm > > tmpfs 10M 164K 9.9M 2% /dev > > The quoted output does not demonstrate this at *all*. It only shows how > much disk space you have, which is *completely* unrelated to how much memory > is free on the system.
You are right. I was showing that the partition conatining /var did have room. I think what happened was that I had several mozilla instances, each with about 10-12 tabs opened, some with heavy crap in the background. That was probably the cause, since closing all of them it installed fine. Sorry for the false alarm. Thanks.
