Re: [uml-user] _alloc pages error

[BlaisorBlade <bla...@ya...>]

On Thursday 09 September 2004 23:12, Michael West wrote:
> I am running debian using kernel from
> user-mode-linux_2.4.26-1um-1_i386.deb
>
> I am trying to convert an existing debian stable machine to a uml
> instance.  I am getting the following error from the kernel when using
> dpkg ( or apt-get):

> _alloc_pages: 0-order allocation failed (gfp=0x1d2/0)
> I have an existing uml instance in which dpkg works fine.  I have
> detected no other problems with the system.  The error is not
> consistant.  For example,installing the kernel source package will fail
> about one our of three tries. Installing php4-mysql package fails
> everytime.  dpkg returns "Segmentation fault"
Could you try increasing the memory assigned to your UML? This could simply be 
an out-of-memory error (even if it's strange). However, there is a lot of 
people getting this error *now*, even Jeff, so this is going to be fixed 
soon.

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Paolo Giarrusso, aka Blaisorblade
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