linux:~# apt-get upgrade Reading Package Lists... Done Building Dependency Tree... Done The following packages will be upgraded: python2.3 python2.4 python2.4-doc 3 upgraded, 0 newly installed, 0 to remove and 0 not upgraded. 1 not fully installed or removed. Need to get 0B/9622kB of archives. After unpacking 496kB of additional disk space will be used. Do you want to continue? [Y/n] Y Out of memory! (Reading database ... 36101 files and directories currently installed.) Preparing to replace python2.3 2.3.5-3sarge1 (using .../python2.3_2.3.5-3sarge2_i386.deb) ... dpkg: error processing /var/cache/apt/archives/python2.3_2.3.5-3sarge2_i386.deb (--unpack): failed to realloc for variable buffer: Cannot allocate memory Inconsistency detected by ld.so: dl-minimal.c: 84: __libc_memalign: Assertion `page != ((void *) -1)' failed! dpkg: error while cleaning up: subprocess rm cleanup returned error exit status 127 dpkg: failed to realloc for variable buffer: Cannot allocate memory E: Sub-process /usr/bin/dpkg returned an error code (2)