On Wednesday 03 March 2004 11:13, Odhiambo Washington wrote: > real memory = 268410880 (255 MB) > avail memory = 254259200 (242 MB) Random buildworld failures are almost always due to bad RAM. You said 512, well dmesg only shows half. Try first taking the sticks out and putting them back in, swap the sticks one by one for a known good one if needed. HTH, Dan