Re: Memory exhaustion when installing kernel

[Mike Chambers <mike netlyncs com>]

On Tue, 2004-06-08 at 09:16 +0100, Cam wrote:

> warning: /home/cxm/kernel-2.6.6-1.422.i686.rpm: V3 DSA signature: NOKEY, 
> key ID 9d6b4012
> 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.

-- 
Mike Chambers
Madisonville, KY

"It's always better to hurt a little now, than to hurt a lot later!"