i'm seeing the same behavior (oom-killer invoked) on a machine with 256MiB of RAM if no swap is loaded.
without swap, the following command fails because of gconf's postinst
script, which calls gconf-schemas --register-all --no-signal:
aptitude install gnome-desktop
if i add a bunch of swap, i can get away with it.
It would be a shame to have to give up on gnome for systems with 256MiB
RAM and no swap :(
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