In foo.debian-user, you wrote: > Hi All. > > This just started today, after doing a dselect/Update off of www.debian.org > stable main, contrib, and non-free. Now when I run dselect and go into the > Select option, the program just quits with the message: > > dselect: failed to create baselist pad: Cannot allocate memory > > This is on a 32MB AMDK6-233; one partition with 235MB still free. Kernel is > 2.0.36. > > Any clues?
Do you have a swap partition? Are you running any other memory-hogging applications at the same time? (like Netscape) -Mitch