package opera 9.27-20080331.6hardy1 failed to install/upgrade: fallo en `fork'

[Emilio]

Binary package hint: opera

I couldn't install Opera at first. But retried and worked OK this time.

ProblemType: Package
Architecture: i386
Date: Wed Jul 23 16:34:25 2008
DistroRelease: Ubuntu 8.10
ErrorMessage: fallo en `fork'
Package: opera 9.27-20080331.6hardy1
PackageArchitecture: i386
SourcePackage: opera
Title: package opera 9.27-20080331.6hardy1 failed to install/upgrade: fallo en `fork'
Uname: Linux 2.6.26-4-generic i686

[Pascal De Vuyst (pascal-devuyst)]

Looks like a memory issue:

dpkg: error when processing /var/cache/apt/archives/opera_9.27-20080331.6hardy1_i386.deb (--unpack): failure in `fork': Memory cannot be assigned

How much RAM does your computer have? Did you use the desktop or alternate install CD?

[Emilio (turl)]

I have 256MB RAM and was using an already installed system. Now I identified my problem, swap was disabled in my system for some reason.

[Pascal De Vuyst (pascal-devuyst)]

Considering your last comment we are closing this bug report.
Feel free to reopen if this still is an issue after activating swap: therefore you can click on the current status, under the Status column, and change the Status back to "New". Thanks again!