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zram swap size not big enough for dpkg-reconfigure locales #520
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That is crazy that it take up so much RAM. |
In my tests, this took upwards of a minute to load. |
so it ran for you without error? |
Me? The menu loads after I wait 30-60 seconds, but I haven't tried actually changing the locale. |
I've increased the zram swap size so this might have a chance of working now.
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Possibly related: I mounted some directories to tmpfs trying to protect my sd-card:
This way I might loose some logging doing this. Before update:
update:
Retry
And ready 😄 Pffffffff, close . . Terminal shows:
So: WORKS! |
Wow, what will you do with those extra 4 bytes? If you are interested, you can setup another zram device for tmpfs. There is a service for this in the zram-init package. It is just turned off. https://github.com/ev3dev/zram-init/blob/ev3dev-jessie/systemd/system/zram_tmp.service. You will have to modify the kernel command line in |
Using ev3 image
ev3dev-jessie-2015-12-30
Running dpkg-reconfigure locales (during an upgrade) suffers:
I know en_US.UTF8 already is the defauls as installed 😄
Looking at
/proc/swaps
I see the zram swap is getting full.As a circumvention I used a swapfile (just for the locales):
During the generate '/proc/swaps`:
After the locales update, remove the swapfile:
In fact just reporting this for the circumvention.
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