Cannot allocate memory

[ajitam]

Hi, I successfully installed pi-hole on Raspberry (B) for the first time, just to test it out, then I formated SD card to fresh image a now when I run installation script I always get

[....] Restarting DNS forwarder and DHCP server: dnsmasq
dnsmasq: cannot fork into background: Cannot allocate memory
 failed!
Restarting services...
No resolv.conf for interface lo.dnsmasq
[....] Restarting DNS forwarder and DHCP server: dnsmasq
dnsmasq: cannot fork into background: Cannot allocate memory
 failed!
[ ok ] Stopping web server: lighttpd.
[ ok ] Starting web server: lighttpd.

I also tried on B+ with same result. Any ideas?

[jacobsalmela]

You might be out of memory. Can you lower the amount given to the GUI via sudo raspi-config?

[ajitam]

hmm that actually worked. I don't remember setting this the first time (when installation was successful)

thx

[enjunear]

I've run into the same problem, even after allocating the minimum memory (16) to the gui.