Mitch Blevins wrote:
In foo.debian-user, you wrote:
Hi All.
This just started today, after doing a dselect/Update off of www.debian.org
stable main, contrib, and non-free. Now when I run dselect and go into the
Select option, the program just quits with the message:
dselect: failed to create baselist pad: Cannot allocate memory
This is on a 32MB AMDK6-233; one partition with 235MB still free. Kernel is
2.0.36.
Any clues?
Do you have a swap partition? Are you running any other memory-hogging
applications at the same time? (like Netscape)
-Mitch
Yes, have swap; and yes, was running Netscape. I had been able to run
dselect/select several times already during this particular session
while Netscape was running, so I didn't really suspect Netscape of being
the problem. At any rate, everything's working fine now after a reboot
(not to fix things a la Windows, but for another reason). I just now
ran dselect/select and have two Netscape Navigator windows open and the
Netscape Mail window open and this Netscape Message Composer window
open; if the problem resurfaces, I'll shut down all of Netscape and try
it and see what happens.
Thanks!
