On Friday 12 April 2013 15:59:06 David Goodenough wrote: > On Friday 12 Apr 2013, Claudius Hubig wrote: > > Dear David,
Hi David, > > David Goodenough wrote: > > > I have a PcEngines WRAP board, which has 64MB of memory and a CF disk. > > > > > > Unpacking replacement traceroute ... > > > dpkg-deb (subprocess): decompressing archive member: lzma error: > > > Cannot > > > allocate memory > > > dpkg-deb: error: subprocess <decompress> returned error exit status 2 > > > Any ideas? > > > > If nothing else helps, you could try to use a temporary swap file. > > While not perfect for the lifetime of the CF card and probably > > horribly slow, it’s better than nothing. > > Yes that works, but it is not something I would want to do repeatedly > to the CF. It does seem odd that such tiny DEBs need such a large amount > of memory to uncompress them. It may make sense to raise this issue as a Debian bug report. I will see how that will go with my ASUS WL-500gP router. It has 32 MiB. But it has a swap partition on the USB stick, that it usually doesn´t need, and I can also put in an USB harddisk for swap on the second USB port. Ciao, -- Martin 'Helios' Steigerwald - http://www.Lichtvoll.de GPG: 03B0 0D6C 0040 0710 4AFA B82F 991B EAAC A599 84C7 -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [email protected] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [email protected] Archive: http://lists.debian.org/341450479.by8EtWI2oz@merkaba
