On 2008-09-20 22:14, Chris Bannister wrote: > On Sat, Sep 20, 2008 at 12:25:51PM +0200, Johannes wrote: >> Hi all, >> >> on my etch I 'suddenly' get a very funny behaviour when running aptitude: >> >> 11:36:[EMAIL PROTECTED]:~$ aptitude search pppoe >> terminate called after throwing an instance of 'std::bad_alloc' >> what(): St9bad_alloc > > I get that sometimes too. Don't know why, but as root a: > echo 1000000000 > /proc/sys/kernel/shmmax > seems to cure it. > > For the record; my command is $ apt-cache search <package>
Thanks. For the record: today it works without that echo or anything else modified, as far as I can tell... Johannes -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
