On Wed, Jan 15, 2003 at 11:31:14PM +0100, Ing. Vladimir M. Kerka wrote: > 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.
Wonderful. It took away all the badness :-) Any particular reason for the number? I suppose this will keep on hitting me every now and then as Debian grows ever bigger, anyone fixing it properly? There are two related bugs: 172777 172726 Could be nice for future refernece :-) /M > 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]> -- Magnus Therning ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
