On 2020-10-28, Ashton Fagg <ash...@fagg.id.au> wrote: > Anthony Campbell <a...@acampbell.uk> writes: > >> I upgraded to the i386 version of 6.8-Release on three different >> Thinkpads R40E. On all of them, chromium fails to start, saying "Unable >> to allocate memory". >> >> I suppose these are so ancient that it's hardly surprising (can't be >> mamy still around), but I thought I'd report it anyway. Here is the >> dmesg: > > Two questions and a suggestion: > > 1. How much memory do the machines have? > > 2. Can you run chrome from the command line and post what gets put into > stdout/stderr?
Both were answered in Anthony's original mail - "Unable to allocate memory" for your second q, and 2GB for the first (check the dmesg output).