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#59 malloc cannot allocate
When I go to backup a drive with another HD and it asks me to "Insert USB device into this machine now" (if I havn't already), then press the Enter key, I do press it (my device was already plugged in).
Then it goes through the normal stuff, but I notice that it ends with:
Getting /dev/sda1 info...
Getting /dev/sda2 info...
Getting /dev/sda3 info...
Getting /dev/sdb1 info...
malloc:Cannot allocate memory
Seeing malloc saying it couldn't allocate memory (only on the screen for less than 5 seconds) made me worry something important didn't run correctly...so even though the next screen looked normal (asking me to choose a petition), I did not continue.
It's done this on both clonezilla-live-20150217-utopic-i386.iso and clonezilla-live-2.3.2-22-i586.iso
Thanks,
Isaac
What's your RAM size?
BTW, maybe this is Linux kernel/hardware support issue.
Did you try testing Clonezilla live:
http://clonezilla.org/downloads.php
It comes with newer Linux kernel so the result might be different.
Steven.
The RAM size is 1GB.
I'm pretty sure it did the same thing when I had it copy the live image to ram (a boot option), which I thought was kinda funny since I would have thought I'd get malloc errors earlier doing it that way.
Not sure if I'll try the testing branch, I'm more likely to go back and try an old stable iso I already have and see if it does it.
The error flashes on the screen so briefly (and in plain white text) that I wonder if I never noticed it before or that no-one else is noticing it because their PC's are faster. Although the last drive to load (sdb1) was a 2TB FAT drive (if I remember correctly), and I haven't been using it very long, so perhaps that is causing malloc problems.
OK.
Or you can try the same version number, but AMD64 arch.
Steven.