Re: dpkg fails to allocte memory ?

2001-03-17 Thread Moritz Schulte
B Thomas [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: malloc failed (65552 bytes): Cannot allocate memory dpkg: failed to realloc for variable buffer: Cannot allocate memory E: Sub-process /usr/bin/dpkg returned an error code (2) Please note I have 128 Mb or ram and am able to run xfree86 and other

Re: dpkg fails to allocte memory ?

2001-03-17 Thread B Thomas
No I don't get any message reporting VM failure. But I did manage a fix by loging into single user mode and apt works just fine. I don't know why though. However I think it is time I upgrade to 2.2.18 :-). Please note the suggestions in the bug report that it may be a problem with locale did

dpkg fails to allocte memory ?

2001-03-16 Thread B Thomas
I get the following error when I try to use dpkg or apt for any purpose install or remove packages : Selecting previously deselected package netscape-base-4. (Reading database ... dpkg: error processing /var/cache/apt/archives/netscape-base-4_1%3a4.76-1_i386.deb (--unpack): malloc failed (65552