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A couple weeks ago, I reported that emerge gentoo-sources was failing. |
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It magically worked once, so I quit yapping. |
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This was in the context of a fresh install, from the Gentoo CD boot. |
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The fix seems to be enabling a swap device, which I don't think is in |
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the instructions. |
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It was a fluke that I came to this conclusion, but it works. |
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I switched to a second PWS500 (almost identical) to eliminate crazy |
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hardware as a possibility. |
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I didn't think portage/emerge was such a hog that 256MB RAM was too |
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little. BTW, my first machine had 384MB. |
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I'm not going to formally report this as a bug, but I think something is |
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wrong. Maybe it only affects weakling Alphas like mine? |
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I don't follow the alternative architectures forum. Maybe if someone |
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shows up there with this problem, you can suggest swapon. |
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Adios, DW |
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