On Fri, Mar 7, 2008 at 4:12 PM, Marlon Smith <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
wrote:

>
> Hi everyone,
>
> I have been having a frustrating with ipkg.. on a fresh install of
> angstrom, with a clean home directory, when i type "ipkg install
> somepackage" I get the following error:
>
> xsystem: ERROR: fork failed before execution: 'wget --passive-ftp       -q
> -P /tmp/ipkg-GhPBqz http://www.angstrom-distribution.org/feeds/2007/ipk/...
> (leading to the path of somepackage which i asked for)
>
> I am booting angstrom from an sd card using altboot, but I'm pretty sure I
> was able to install software that way before.  Any help would be greatly
> appreciated!!
>

> Thanks
>
> Marlon

That is ipkg's way of telling you it's out of memory :(
You will need to add a swapfile on your SD card to get around this problem

-- 
Henry von Tresckow (hvontres)
_______________________________________________
Angstrom-distro-users mailing list
[email protected]
http://lists.linuxtogo.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/angstrom-distro-users

Reply via email to