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
