[Bug 940912] Re: distribution update crashed

[fariazz]

There were two things I had done that same week that could explain why
this was happening, since after I changed that, it never happened again:

-when installing Jetbrains PHP I changed the default java program from
openjdk to "Sun"'s java. When I reverted this, I was able to download
and install the updates, nevertheless I was still having similar error
messages when running other programs.

-I had just added 4 GB of RAM but I hadn't increased the swap partition.
After I did this, I never had memory allocation errors again.

So it was most likely not a bug..

Thanks for the help.

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Title:
  distribution update crashed

Status in “update-manager” package in Ubuntu:
  Incomplete

Bug description:
  1)
  Description:	Ubuntu 11.10
  Release:	11.10

  2)
  It was during an automatic distribution upgrade on the 25/02/2012, I don't know the name of the package that triggers this.

  3)
  I expected the updates to download and install properly as they usually do.

  4)
  They downloaded ok. Then when installing, I got the following error message. I've attached the files in /var/log/dist-upgrade and in /etc/apt in case it helps.

  ********
  Please report this as a bug (if you haven't already) and include the files /var/log/dist-upgrade/main.log and /var/log/dist-upgrade/apt.log in your report. The upgrade has aborted.
  Your original sources.list was saved in /etc/apt/sources.list.distUpgrade.

  Traceback (most recent call last):

    File "/usr/bin/update-manager", line 106, in <module>
      controler.doPartialUpgrade()

    File "/usr/lib/python2.7/dist-packages/DistUpgrade/DistUpgradeController.py", line 1694, in doPartialUpgrade
      if not self.doDistUpgrade():

    File "/usr/lib/python2.7/dist-packages/DistUpgrade/DistUpgradeController.py", line 1083, in doDistUpgrade
      self._view.getTerminal().call(cmd)

    File "/usr/lib/python2.7/dist-packages/DistUpgrade/DistUpgradeViewGtk3.py", line 360, in call
      None, # child_setup_data

    File "/usr/lib/python2.7/dist-packages/gi/types.py", line 43, in function
      return info.invoke(*args, **kwargs)

  GError: Failed to fork (Cannot allocate memory)

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