in _execute_child self.pid = os.fork() - OSError: [Errno 12] Cannot allocate memory

[farnil]

I wanted to upgrade from 8.10 to new release today:

A fatal error occurred

Please report this as a bug and include the files
/var/log/dist-upgrade/main.log and /var/log/dist-upgrade/apt.log in
your report. The upgrade is now aborted.
Your original sources.list was saved in
/etc/apt/sources.list.distUpgrade.

Traceback (most recent call last):

File "/tmp/tmpGsvA3D/jaunty", line 6, in <module>
main()

File "/tmp/tmpGsvA3D/DistUpgradeMain.py", line 125, in main
app.run()

File "/tmp/tmpGsvA3D/DistUpgradeController.py", line 1575, in run
self.fullUpgrade()

File "/tmp/tmpGsvA3D/DistUpgradeController.py", line 1514, in
fullUpgrade
self.openCache()

File "/tmp/tmpGsvA3D/DistUpgradeController.py", line 164, in
openCache
lock)

File "/tmp/tmpGsvA3D/DistUpgradeCache.py", line 107, in __init__
self.uname =
Popen(["uname","-r"],stdout=PIPE).communicate()[0].strip()

File "/usr/lib/python2.5/subprocess.py", line 594, in __init__
errread, errwrite)

File "/usr/lib/python2.5/subprocess.py", line 1073, in _execute_child
self.pid = os.fork()

OSError: [Errno 12] Cannot allocate memory

ProblemType: Bug
Architecture: i386
DistroRelease: Ubuntu 8.10
Package: linux-image-2.6.27-14-generic 2.6.27-14.33
ProcCmdLine: root=UUID=3f06a3e5-644d-40a3-ba60-3e56c6c576d7 ro quiet splash
ProcEnviron:
 LANGUAGE=en_US:en
 PATH=/usr/local/sbin:/usr/local/bin:/usr/sbin:/usr/bin:/sbin:/bin:/usr/games:/opt/real/RealPlayer
 LANG=en_US.UTF-8
 SHELL=/bin/bash
ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 2.6.27-14.33-generic
SourcePackage: linux
UnreportableReason: This is not a genuine Ubuntu package

[Jean-Baptiste Lallement (jibel)]

Thanks for your report.

The error is "OSError: [Errno 12] Cannot allocate memory"
It looks like your system suffers from a memory failure. Is it still an issue ? If so could you please run a memory check. Thanks.

[Jean-Baptiste Lallement (jibel)]

 We are closing this bug report because it lacks the information we need to investigate the problem, as described in the previous comments. Please reopen it if you can give us the missing information, and don't hesitate to submit bug reports in the future. To reopen the bug report you can click on the current status, under the Status column, and change the Status back to "New". Thanks again!