On Fri, May 22, 2009 at 4:25 PM, Danek Duvall <danek.duvall at sun.com> wrote: [...] >> conary and IPS are implemented in the same languages (Python and for >> its backends C), it must be possible to fix IPS. > > Undoubtedly. > > For now, though, if you want to move forward, you have a couple of options: > > ?- add more swap > > ?- free up more swap (looks like you had a hundred megs or so in /tmp) > > ?- quit the window system and upgrade from console or from ssh > >> As you see I removed all cross-postings from CC, because only the >> engineers at caiman-discuss can help here. > > Actually, the folks on caiman-discuss can't help much at all, except those > of us on the packaging team who are subscribed. ?pkg-discuss is the > appropriate alias (so pkg-discuss copied, and caiman-discuss bcc'ed).
The caiman installer should default to a much bigger swap size on low-memory configurations. /dev/zvol/dsk/rpool/swap should be larger than 512MB, otherwise installing the redistributable cluster (or however it is now called) will fail. Nothing was copied by myself to /tmp. It was a just booted fresh install, mint condition. I CC'ed this single message to caiman again, because defining swap size at install time does affect the installer. Otherwise you are right. I just subscribed to pkg-discuss after a year-long break. In my opinion OpenSolaris _must_ 100% function on everything equal or higher than 256MB of RAM. It is possible and I will fight for it. Everything else is poor and wasteful design. But first I need to learn a few lessons, as I finally have the time and resources to get down to it, unlike previously... %martin
