NO! Nate's advice is not for good. This is definitely so called Dynamic MMap error, this week mentioned at least thrice in this list, find solution in archive. Hint: in your /etc/apt/apt.conf fill in: APT::Cache-Limit 25165824; that solves the problem. Vlada On Wed, 2003-01-15 at 23:00, nate wrote: > Magnus Therning said: > > Can I somehow recreate it? I get the following errors: > > > > # apt-get update > > [..] > > Reading Package Lists... Error! > > E: Dynamic MMap ran out of room > > E: Error occured while processing libgnomeprintui-0 (NewVersion1) > > E: Problem with MergeList /var/lib/dpkg/status > > E: The package lists or status file could not be parsed or opened. # ls -l > > /var/lib/dpkg/status > > -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 1198143 Jan 15 22:38 > > /var/lib/dpkg/status > > > 1) backup the status file > 2) open the status file in the text editor of your choice > 3) find the portion of the file that deals with libgnomeprintui-0 and > see if there is anything unusual there, compare with other entries maybe > theres a curropt line or missing some data or something. worst case is > I would delete the traces of that package from the status file and reinstall > that package. perhaps first finding what files belong to that package(via > packages.debian.org) and deleting those first before reinstalling(I've never > had this particular problem) > > debian also keeps a backup of the status file itself status-old, you > can try to overwrite the status file with status-old and see if that helps. > I reccomend again backing up the status file first. > > nate > -- Ing. Vladimir M. Kerka <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
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