Memory exhaustion when installing kernel

Cam camilo at mesias.co.uk
Tue Jun 8 10:01:31 UTC 2004


Mike

>>memlock: Cannot allocate memory
>>Couldn't lock into memory, exiting.
>>mkinitrd failed
> 
> 
> Been there, done that!
> 
> As root, run ulimit -l unlimited (check the archives from this weekend
> or Thursday or Friday last week).  Then install the kernel again and see
> if that works.

Thanks for the help, here is another way to do it (possibly over the top):

I rebooted to 2.6.6-1.383 in single user mode and it installed smoothly. 
I wonder if it's a problem with 422 or a problem with 414?

-Cam





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