Had this problem pop up -- I ran 'apt-get update; tasksel install lamp-server' so I know it wasn't a stale apt cache. "aptitude failed (100)" is frustratingly opaque, I had no idea what avenue to follow. I wish it reported WHICH aptitude command was used when the failure was thrown.
Following the hints in this bug report, I tried: 'dpkg ---configure -a' and got a more helpful error: root@equius:/etc/cron.daily# dpkg --configure -a Setting up apache2.2-common (2.2.14-5ubuntu8.4) ... dpkg: unrecoverable fatal error, aborting: fork failed: Cannot allocate memory That was weird -- I have 158MB free on this machine. No swap -- it's a Virtual Private Server. I had to shut down the mysqld to free up enough RAM for the configuration script to do it's work. So weird that the pre-inst.sh/post-inst.sh script would use more RAM than the daemon itself when it's running. -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/131134 Title: When attempting to install lamp-server, returns "aptitude failed (100)" -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list [email protected] https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs
