Quoting Eric G . Miller (egm2@jps.net): > On Fri, Sep 01, 2000 at 02:52:06AM -0500, John Reinke wrote: > > doesn't make me happy. Twice, it has crashed while running dselect from a > > console. > > This indicates possibly a hardware or configuration problem. > dselect/apt can be fairly resource intensive -- if your box is > overheating it might crash. The other possibility is too little > ram/swap which may cause a VFS error with the kernel (have you checked > the logs?).
On occasion I have run a 32MB machine with no swap partition (having been borrowed for installation files) and dpkg gives lots of out-of- memory messages. Running a second instance of dpkg (-l) has crashed the primary one (-i, doing all the work). But the kernel never blinked, and restoring the swap/repeating the dpkg command completed successfully. So I agree it may be hardware. Cheers, -- Email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Tel: +44 1908 653 739 Fax: +44 1908 655 151 Snail: David Wright, Earth Science Dept., Milton Keynes, England, MK7 6AA Disclaimer: These addresses are only for reaching me, and do not signify official stationery. Views expressed here are either my own or plagiarised.
