I was able to install the newer Debian build for my Pogoplug Pro as per the instructions here, but now I can't add any new packages. I had been able to add NTP and the X11-utils, but now I can't get any more packages to install (have been trying to install etherwake, xterm, screen). As an example, if I try to install just "etherwake": ================================= root@:/etc/network# apt-get install etherwake Reading package lists... Done Building dependency tree Reading state information... Done The following extra packages will be installed: wakeonlan The following NEW packages will be installed: etherwake wakeonlan 0 upgraded, 2 newly installed, 0 to remove and 0 not upgraded. Need to get 20.7 kB of archives. After this operation, 135 kB of additional disk space will be used. Do you want to continue [Y/n]? y Get:1 http://ftp.us.debian.org/debian/ squeeze/main etherwake armel 1.09-3 [9,302 B] Get:2 http://ftp.us.debian.org/debian/ squeeze/main wakeonlan all 0.41-10 [11.4 kB] Fetched 20.7 kB in 0s (86.2 kB/s) dpkg: unrecoverable fatal error, aborting: fork failed: Cannot allocate memory E: Sub-process /usr/bin/dpkg returned an error code (2) ================================== This is a fresh install, it was active for perhaps 30 min before it failed.
I hadn't even considered the "-f" switch, since I've usually used that for package configuration errors. Unfortunately, those cleanup steps didn't fix anything. # apt-get -f install 0 upgraded, 0 newly installed, 0 to remove and 0 not upgraded. # apt-get autoremove 0 upgraded, 0 newly installed, 0 to remove and 0 not upgraded. # apt-get update (ran normally) # apt-get upgrade 0 upgraded, 0 newly installed, 0 to remove and 0 not upgraded. # apt-get install etherwake (same "fork failed...." error as before)
Hi 1 Go into the /var/lib/dpkg directory 2 Make a backup of the "status" file 3 Open the status file as root and find the package that causes the error. In this case, its "PACKAGE: inkscape". 4 Delete all the text until the next PACKAGE: declaration in the file. Br// Srijan Br// Srijan
There is no "inkscape" package in the status file, and none of the other packages I was trying to install have "Package:" entries either
Debian Squeeze for armv6l Had used the instructions at http://www.howtoforge.com/installing-debian-squeeze-on-pogoplug-v3-oxnas-cleanly, built using a liveCD for Lubuntu 14.04 (the directions seem to be oriented towards using a liveCD, rather than a regularly installed Linux system) (will be out for a couple hours, can check further after that).
I copied in your file into place (/var/lib/dpkg/status), then first tried the install for etherwake. I got a large number of uninstallable dependencies. So I tried apt-get -f install: root@:/etc/apt/apt.conf.d# apt-get -f install Reading package lists... Done Building dependency tree Reading state information... Done Correcting dependencies... Done The following packages were automatically installed and are no longer required: fontconfig-config openssh-blacklist Use 'apt-get autoremove' to remove them. The following extra packages will be installed: ... Suggested packages: ... Recommended packages: ... The following NEW packages will be installed: ... 0 upgraded, 106 newly installed, 0 to remove and 2 not upgraded. Need to get 0 B/45.2 MB of archives. After this operation, 129 MB of additional disk space will be used. Do you want to continue [Y/n]? y E: Could not perform immediate configuration on 'libc6'. Please see man 5 apt.conf under APT::Immediate-Configure for details. (2) ======================================================= Also tried installing some individual packages: ----------------------------------------------- root@:/etc/apt/apt.conf.d# dpkg -i /var/cache/apt/archives/dpkg_1.15.8.13_armel.deb dpkg: unrecoverable fatal error, aborting: fork failed: Cannot allocate memory root@:/etc/apt/apt.conf.d# dpkg -i /var/cache/apt/archives/libc6_2.11.3-4_armel.deb dpkg: unrecoverable fatal error, aborting: fork failed: Cannot allocate memory
