On 28 Oct 2020, Stuart Henderson wrote: > On 2020-10-28, Ashton Fagg <ash...@fagg.id.au> wrote: > > Anthony Campbell <a...@acampbell.uk> writes: > > > >> I upgraded to the i386 version of 6.8-Release on three different > >> Thinkpads R40E. On all of them, chromium fails to start, saying "Unable > >> to allocate memory". > >> > >> I suppose these are so ancient that it's hardly surprising (can't be > >> mamy still around), but I thought I'd report it anyway. Here is the > >> dmesg: > > > > Two questions and a suggestion: > > > > 1. How much memory do the machines have? > > > > 2. Can you run chrome from the command line and post what gets put into > > stdout/stderr? > > Both were answered in Anthony's original mail - "Unable to allocate > memory" for your second q, and 2GB for the first (check the dmesg output). >
FWIW, firefox runs without problems. -- Anthony Campbell https://www.acampbell.uk
