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 not work. Since I had tried to run kde after "unset LANG unset LC_CTYPE .... ".
b thomas On Sat, Mar 17, 2001 at 02:01:37PM +0100, Moritz Schulte wrote: > 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 programs well. > > > My kernel version is 2.2.17 and the dpkg version is 1.6.14 . > > Linux 2.2.17 has some problems with virtual memory management. Perhaps > the dpkg problem is related to this. Does linux log something like > "VM: do_try_to_free_pages failed for [dpkg]"? > I suggest to install Linux 2.2.18 + Andrea Arcangeli's > VM-global-2.2.18pre25 Patch, which can be found on a kernel.org mirror > under people/andrea or Linux >= 2.2.19pre2, which has this VM patch > included. > > hth, > moritz > --
