Failed to fork ERROR

[The General]

Does any have any idea what this is all about...... Come on Falko i know you know the anwser ;-)

root@ns1 ~]# apt-get install cyrus-sasl cyrus-sasl-devel cyrus-sasl-gssapi cyrus-sasl-md5 cyrus-sasl-plain postfix imap
Reading Package Lists... Done
Building Dependency Tree... Done
The following extra packages will be installed:
openssl097a (0.9.7a-3.1)
xinetd (2.3.13-6)
The following packages will be upgraded
cyrus-sasl (2.1.20-5 => 2.1.20-6)
cyrus-sasl-devel (2.1.20-5 => 2.1.20-6)
cyrus-sasl-md5 (2.1.20-5 => 2.1.20-6)
cyrus-sasl-plain (2.1.20-5 => 2.1.20-6)
The following NEW packages will be installed:
cyrus-sasl-gssapi (2.1.20-6)
imap (2002d-3)
openssl097a (0.9.7a-3.1)
postfix (2.2.2-2)
xinetd (2.3.13-6)
4 upgraded, 5 newly installed, 0 removed and 256 not upgraded.
FATAL -> Failed to fork.

[till]

Ist this setup on a VServer or on a standalone hardware?

[Hotwire]

Any luck? Im running an FC4 install and Im getting the failed to fork error with apt-get too.

[falko]

What about Till's question?

[The General]

What i did to solve this problem was on a fresh install increase the /SWAP partition to 2000MB, Must be something to do with a memory hungry update! VVVVery SORRRRYYY about the late reply, I have been Very Ill.