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On Wednesday 03 March 2004 11:13, Odhiambo Washington wrote:
> real memory =A0=3D 268410880 (255 MB)
> avail memory =3D 254259200 (242 MB)

Random buildworld failures are almost always due to bad RAM. You said 512,=
=20
well dmesg only shows half. Try first taking the sticks out and putting the=
m=20
back in, swap the sticks one by one for a known good one if needed.


HTH,

Dan