Your message dated Tue, 24 Feb 2009 16:26:16 +0100
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and subject line Re: Bug#516742: Info received (Bug#516742: dselect: fork
failed: Cannot allocate memory)
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regarding dselect: fork failed: Cannot allocate memory
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Package: dselect
Version: 1.14.25
Severity: important
Just upgraded my sever to Debian 5.0 as of Sunday 22 Feb 2009.
No problem with upgrade.
But after upgrade I have problem with dselect.
As many times before I update check by dselect option 1-3
1. [U]pdate
2. [S]elect
3. [I]nstall
but when I select 3 dselect dumps with:
Merging available information
Replacing available packages info, using /var/cache/apt/available.
Information about 23078 package(s) was updated.
dselect: unrecoverable fatal error, aborting:
fork failed: Cannot allocate memory
I can restart dselect and just select option 3, and all work fine.
In this case no updates to install.
Just before I select option 3 I see the following info in top
PID USER PR NI VIRT RES SHR S %CPU %MEM TIME+ COMMAND
17834 root 20 0 137m 135m 952 S 0.0 54.2 0:06.34 dselect
Have been using Debian Stable on this box since May 2002 without change in
hardware,
never seen this problem before with dselect.
Installation based on minimal package selection.
Brgds
Torben
-- System Information:
Debian Release: 5.0
APT prefers stable
APT policy: (500, 'stable')
Architecture: i386 (i686)
Kernel: Linux 2.6.26-1-686 (SMP w/1 CPU core)
Locale: LANG=en_DK, LC_CTYPE=en_DK (charmap=ISO-8859-1)
Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/bash
Versions of packages dselect depends on:
ii dpkg 1.14.25 Debian package management system
ii libc6 2.7-18 GNU C Library: Shared libraries
ii libgcc1 1:4.3.2-1.1 GCC support library
ii libncursesw5 5.7+20081213-1 shared libraries for terminal hand
ii libstdc++6 4.3.2-1.1 The GNU Standard C++ Library v3
dselect recommends no packages.
dselect suggests no packages.
-- no debconf information
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--- Begin Message ---
On Tue, 24 Feb 2009, Torben Schou Jensen wrote:
> My problem solved.
>
> I added a new 256MB swap file, so now 512MB swap on server.
> And now no problems with dselect.
Thanks, that's what I suspected. There is no bug that makes dselect grow
indefinitely and fail, it's just that the memory requirement have
grown together with the number of available packages.
Hence closing this bug.
Cheers,
--
Raphaël Hertzog
Le best-seller français mis à jour pour Debian Etch :
http://www.ouaza.com/livre/admin-debian/
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