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glibc package

  1. Bug #377242
  2. Comment #2

Comment 2 for bug 377242

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Dan Kegel (dank) wrote :

Still affects the alternate installer for Precise beta 1 on a machine with 128MB of RAM.

May be a dup of http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=185010
which suggests doing
  echo 100 > /proc/sys/vm/swappiness
I tried that after half an hour, and after another five minutes, install got past that step,
so perhaps it helped.