I have a low end router that I have to update. Its a Via Epia PC with 256 MB ram + 512MB swap when I try to install a new kernel, the install breaks. -> Old kernel pentoo-sources.3.9.9 was fine -> New kernels tried: pentoo-sources 3.15.5 and gentoo-sources 3.14.14 >> Installing (1 of 1) sys-kernel/gentoo-sources-3.14.14 Traceback (most recent call last): File "/usr/lib/portage/pym/portage/dbapi/_MergeProcess.py", line 234, in _spawn prev_mtimes=self.prev_mtimes, counter=counter) File "/usr/lib/portage/pym/portage/dbapi/vartree.py", line 4839, in merge counter=counter) File "/usr/lib/portage/pym/portage/dbapi/vartree.py", line 4253, in treewalk a = phase.wait() File "/usr/lib/portage/pym/_emerge/AsynchronousTask.py", line 54, in wait self._wait() File "/usr/lib/portage/pym/_emerge/CompositeTask.py", line 85, in _wait task.wait() File "/usr/lib/portage/pym/_emerge/AsynchronousTask.py", line 57, in wait self._wait_hook() File "/usr/lib/portage/pym/_emerge/AsynchronousTask.py", line 175, in _wait_hook self._exit_listener_stack.pop()(self) File "/usr/lib/portage/pym/_emerge/EbuildPhase.py", line 158, in _lock_exit self._start_ebuild() File "/usr/lib/portage/pym/_emerge/EbuildPhase.py", line 184, in _start_ebuild self._start_task(ebuild_process, self._ebuild_exit) File "/usr/lib/portage/pym/_emerge/CompositeTask.py", line 151, in _start_task task.start() File "/usr/lib/portage/pym/_emerge/AsynchronousTask.py", line 30, in start self._start() File "/usr/lib/portage/pym/_emerge/AbstractEbuildProcess.py", line 145, in _start SpawnProcess._start(self) File "/usr/lib/portage/pym/_emerge/SpawnProcess.py", line 106, in _start retval = self._spawn(self.args, **kwargs) File "/usr/lib/portage/pym/_emerge/EbuildProcess.py", line 25, in _spawn actionmap=actionmap, **kwargs) File "/usr/lib/portage/pym/portage/package/ebuild/doebuild.py", line 157, in _doebuild_spawn return spawn(cmd, settings, **portage._native_kwargs(kwargs)) File "/usr/lib/portage/pym/portage/package/ebuild/doebuild.py", line 1571, in spawn **portage._native_kwargs(keywords)) File "/usr/lib/portage/pym/portage/process.py", line 115, in spawn_bash return spawn(args, opt_name=opt_name, **keywords) File "/usr/lib/portage/pym/portage/process.py", line 310, in spawn pid = os.fork() File "/usr/lib/portage/pym/portage/__init__.py", line 259, in __call__ rval = self._func(*wrapped_args, **wrapped_kwargs) OSError: [Errno 12] Cannot allocate memory Resolution: Add another 1024mb swapspace!
We can't fix that for you. You might want to consider compiling that kernel (and indeed everything else) on another host instead.
