Unrecoverable fatal error aborting

The following packages have unmet dependencies:
chromium-browser: Depends: chromium-browser-inspector but it is not going to be installed.

Last edited by Perfect Storm; April 5th, 2011 at 07:01 AM . Reason: add info

Re: dpkg: unrecoverable fatal error

fork failed: Cannot allocate memory

How much memory you got in that puppy??

Re: dpkg: unrecoverable fatal error

This may not be relevant, but any time you get a cannot allocate memory error message, do one thing first.

Open a terminal and type:

Then see if it shows any swap.

On multi-boot Linux systems, or perhaps on a linux system where a new distro is installed, it changes UUID when you format a partition.

So, if no swap (shows 0) in your terminal, type:

sudo blkid followed by password

Note the UUIDs shown.

Now open a second terminal and type

sudo kate then your sudo password, and wait for kate to open up. (Vi fans can do that, too if you wish)

In kate, open /etc/fstab and compare the UUID’s stated for each volume.

If they are different, copy them from the terminal listing by highlighting the id, and then Ctrl+Shift+c, then Ctrl+v to replace the UUID in fstab.

Edited: Once they are the same, of course, SAVE the new /etc/fstab and reboot to enable mount for any partitions whose UUID was wrong.Ed

This may not be the case, but it should be checked via top before you do a lot of other stuff. It’s called a process of elimination.

Last edited by irlandes; April 2nd, 2011 at 05:49 AM . Reason: left out part of instructions, sorry

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i cant install anything. VPS UBUNTU SERVER

hi, i am new to ubuntu, i am connected to my vps through ssh. I am facing a problem and cant install anything on my server. error I am receiving on every installation is

dpkg: unrecoverable fatal error, aborting:
fork failed: Cannot allocate memory
E: Sub-process /usr/bin/dpkg returned an error code (2)

when i run this command «sudo dpkg —configure -a», it starts installing and abort in the middle with the above error (2).

top — 10:36:59 up 2 days, 3:09, 2 users, load average: 0.00, 0.01, 0.05Tasks: 89 total, 1 running, 88 sleeping, 0 stopped, 0 zombie
Cpu(s): 0.3%us, 0.0%sy, 0.0%ni, 99.7%id, 0.0%wa, 0.0%hi, 0.0%si, 0.0%st
Mem: 244648k total, 215860k used, 28788k free, 2128k buffers
Swap: 0k total, 0k used, 0k free, 43160k cached

PID USER PR NI VIRT RES SHR S %CPU %MEM TIME+ COMMAND
1867 openvpn_ 20 0 25008 1044 44 S 0.0 0.4 7:48.07 openvpn
1844 root 20 0 264m 39m 1164 S 0.0 16.5 3:05.73 python
1848 openvpn_ 20 0 146m 29m 672 S 0.0 12.3 1:27.46 python
1 root 20 0 24476 1180 136 S 0.0 0.5 1:01.12 init
689 root 20 0 50040 696 92 S 0.0 0.3 0:47.38 sshd
794 root 20 0 231m 7548 1528 S 0.0 3.1 0:39.90 NetworkManager
1857 root 20 0 100m 10m 208 S 0.0 4.2 0:30.13 python
11120 root 20 0 20992 1216 692 S 0.0 0.5 0:29.71 bash
883 whoopsie 20 0 195m 2908 1244 S 0.0 1.2 0:23.50 whoopsie
439 avahi 20 0 32312 968 608 S 0.0 0.4 0:20.00 avahi-daemon
389 syslog 20 0 243m 1072 0 S 0.0 0.4 0:19.23 rsyslogd
1847 root 20 0 129m 18m 264 S 0.0 7.8 0:05.64 python
408 messageb 20 0 24100 1060 500 S 0.0 0.4 0:05.03 dbus-daemon
25 root 20 0 0 0 0 S 0.0 0.0 0:04.88 kswapd0
23 root 20 0 0 0 0 S 0.0 0.0 0:04.34 kworker/0:1
3 root 20 0 0 0 0 S 0.0 0.0 0:03.97 ksoftirqd/0
10 root 20 0 0 0 0 S 0.0 0.0 0:03.56 rcu_sched

total used free shared buffers cachedMem: 238 210 28 0 2 42
-/+ buffers/cache: 166 72
Swap: 0 0 0

Please help me with this.. Thanks

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apt-get package management

to list all packages installed locally.

To update apt-get.

^^ This updates/improves the list of sources from which packages can be selected.

To install a package, for example a package called «unzip».

To check if any packages need to be updated.

(If you leave off the —assume-no then it will prompt you to upgrade, and will default to Y)

To upgrade packages

The capital ‘Y’ means it is the default. So for ‘Yes’ just press enter.

If your machine says something like:

Then you can see which packages need to be upgraded, with:

If you want to upgrade them (hint: you do) then go with:

After performing an upgrade, you may have messages like this:

What is this ‘kept back’ business?

It means that some of the packages were not upgraded, because their dependencies would’ve needed to be upgraded too and this would’ve resulted in NEW packages.

There are (briefly) three commands you can use to release these «kept back» packages:

To update just a single package, and only if it is already installed.

Removing unwanted packages.

You may see a message like this.

Example of the output:

dpkg was interrupted

Sometimes when running

You might receive this message:

. does correct the problem.

dpkg: unrecoverable fatal error

Given this problem I thought I might have to increase the size of the memory.

I found that by rebooting, and re-running the clean up tasks I was attempting I finally succeeded.

First I had to sudo dpkg —configure -a

I haven’t accurately captured all of the sources for this.

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apt-get install unzip get strange error

i am trying to install unzip and get this error:

# apt-get install unzip Reading package lists… Done Building dependency tree
Reading state information… Done Suggested packages: zip The following packages will be upgraded: unzip 1 upgraded, 0 newly installed, 0 to remove and 54 not upgraded. 1 not fully installed or removed. Need to get 0 B/193 kB of archives. After this operation, 386 kB of additional disk space will be used. (Reading database … dpkg: warning: files list file for package `unzip’ missing, assuming package has no files currently installed. (Reading database … 219960 files and directories currently installed.) Preparing to replace unzip 6.0-4ubuntu2.5 (using …/unzip_6.0-4ubuntu2.5_amd64.deb) … Unpacking replacement unzip … dpkg: unrecoverable fatal error, aborting: fork failed: Cannot allocate memory E: Sub-process /usr/bin/dpkg returned an error code (2)

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I would suggest reinstalling package with following command:

This command will completely remove package and install it again, but will not remove packages that depends on it. This is what you need in your current situation.

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