[plug] Memory Alloc error?

Anthony J. Breeds-Taurima tony at cantech.net.au
Wed Sep 19 08:36:45 WST 2001


On Tue, 18 Sep 2001, Ben Jensz wrote:

> Hey all,
>
> When I try to install the libpcap RPM, it comes up with this error:
>
> [root at dugong /root]# rpm -ivh libpcap-0.4-19.i386.rpm
> Preparing...                memory alloc (3663422781 bytes) returned NULL.
>
> This is on a Red Hat 6.2 system... the whole RPM system in general is acting
> really screwy at the moment on this system as well.

Run rpm --rebuilddb and see if that fixes things.

Yours Tony.

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