Oh, thanks! Creating a swap partition on my sd card made all the problems disappear :)
Marlon ---------------------------------------- > Date: Fri, 7 Mar 2008 21:26:54 -0800 > From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > To: [email protected] > Subject: Re: [Angstrom-distro-users] ipkg problems > > On Fri, Mar 7, 2008 at 4:12 PM, Marlon Smith > 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 _________________________________________________________________ Your chance to win great prizes with Windows Live Mail and Rogers MobileMail. Click here to learn how. http://g.msn.ca/ca55/207 _______________________________________________ Angstrom-distro-users mailing list [email protected] http://lists.linuxtogo.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/angstrom-distro-users
