[root@benu build-area]# cowbuilder --update
 -> Copying COW directory
 -> Invoking pbuilder
 -> Running in no-targz mode
 -> copying local configuration
 -> mounting /proc filesystem
 -> mounting /dev/pts filesystem
-> Mounting /var/cache/pbuilder/result
 -> policy-rc.d already exists
cp: cannot stat `/etc/pbuilder/hook.d/*': No such file or directory
W: no hooks found on the hookdir
Refreshing the base.tgz
 -> upgrading packages
Ign file: ./ Release.gpg
Get:1 file: ./ Release [81B]
Get:2 http://www.uk.debian.org sid Release.gpg [189B]
Hit http://www.uk.debian.org sid Release
Hit http://www.uk.debian.org sid/main Packages/DiffIndex
Fetched 1B in 0s (1B/s)
Reading package lists... Done
dpkg - warning: ignoring request to remove lilo which isn't installed.
Obtaining the cached apt archive contents
Reading package lists... Done
Building dependency tree
Reading state information... Done
Calculating upgrade... Done
The following NEW packages will be installed:
  apt apt-utils base-files base-passwd bash bsdmainutils bsdutils coreutils
  debconf debconf-i18n debian-archive-keyring debianutils diff dpkg e2fslibs
  e2fsprogs findutils gawk gcc-4.2-base gnupg gpgv grep gzip hostname
  initscripts libacl1 libattr1 libblkid1 libbz2-1.0 libc6 libcomerr2 libdb4.4
  libdb4.6 libdevmapper1.02.1 libgcc1 libgcrypt11 libgnutls13 libgpg-error0
  libgpmg1 libldap2 liblocale-gettext-perl liblzo2-2 libncurses5 libopencdk10
  libpam-modules libpam-runtime libpam0g libpng12-0 libreadline5 libsasl2-2
  libsasl2-modules libselinux1 libsepol1 libslang2 libss2 libssl0.9.8
  libstdc++6 libtasn1-3 libtext-charwidth-perl libtext-iconv-perl
  libtext-wrapi18n-perl libusb-0.1-4 libuuid1 login lsb-base makedev mktemp
  mount ncurses-base ncurses-bin perl-base psmisc readline-common sed sysv-rc
  sysvinit sysvinit-utils tar tzdata util-linux zlib1g
0 upgraded, 81 newly installed, 0 to remove and 0 not upgraded.
cowdancer: cannot open ilistfile /.ilist
cowdancer: cannot open ilistfile /.ilist
cowdancer: cannot open ilistfile /.ilist
cowdancer: cannot open ilistfile /.ilist
cowdancer: cannot open ilistfile /.ilist
/bin/cp: cannot open `/var/cache/apt/archives/lock' for reading: Cannot allocate memory
cowdancer: cp -a failed for /var/cache/apt/archives/locknoIbe6
E: Could not open lock file /var/cache/apt/archives/lock - open (12 Cannot allocate memory)
E: Unable to lock the download directory
Copying back the cached apt archive contents
cow-shell unlink .ilist: No such file or directory
 -> unmounting /var/cache/pbuilder/result filesystem
 -> unmounting dev/pts filesystem
 -> unmounting proc filesystem
pbuilder update failed
cow-shell unlink .ilist: No such file or directory
[root@benu build-area]#