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> From: nunojsilva@×××××××.pt |
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> Subject: [gentoo-user] Re: Ram Problem! |
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> Date: Mon, 24 Dec 2012 17:32:54 +0200 |
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> No surprise here, from what I can see, what's happening is that *emerge* |
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> is running out of memory, it's not a compilation, so -pipe or MAKEOPTS |
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> won't make any difference here. Are you, by any chance, running anything |
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> else on the machine, or maybe you forgot to enable the swap? |
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No, I am running a cli only liverescuecd. There is nothing that should take much swap. |
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> Even then, unless emerge has changed a lot in the last few years, I |
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> doubt you need that much memory to have emerge copy files to /. But |
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> check the output of "free -m" or something like that to check whether 1) |
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> there's something else using a lot of memory and 2) the swap is |
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> effectiely enabled. |
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Output of free -m: |
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total used free shared buffers cached |
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Mem: 116 41 75 0 2 14 |
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-/+ buffers/cache: 23 92 |
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Swap: 486 153 332 |
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> You can install the vanilla kernel, I think you can even use emerge for |
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> that, but I also think your problem here is with emerge running out of |
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> memory, not gentoo-sources being incompatible. I'd try to fix whatever |
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> the emerge issue is as it will probably prevent you from installing |
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> other packages, and that is effectively a major issue when you want to |
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> use the system. |
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That is my concern. If I get it working with a vanilla kernel, and then booting into the system, |
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emerge do not work, it was all wasted. |
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With best regards, |
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- TheRedMood |
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