On Thu, Jul 21, 2005 at 12:38:42PM -0300, Derek Broughton wrote:
> Steve Lamb wrote:
>
> > Furthermore when is too much information obsfucating? The often cited
> > example is IE's "Friendly" error messages which explain nothing. Give me
> > a short, relatively straight forward and meaningfu
Steve Lamb wrote:
> Furthermore when is too much information obsfucating? The often cited
> example is IE's "Friendly" error messages which explain nothing. Give me
> a short, relatively straight forward and meaningful string (Which "Dynamic
> MMap ran out of room" is) over overly verbose "h
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE-
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Let me try a couple of possible replacements for the "dynamic MMap" error
message. Maybe one of these will more clearly state the error without being too
verbose:
Allowed cache too small.
Allowed cache too small; please (reconfigure|resize).
Insuff
OoO Pendant le temps de midi du jeudi 21 juillet 2005, vers 12:22,
Steve Lamb <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> disait:
> Furthermore when is too much information obsfucating? The often cited
> example is IE's "Friendly" error messages which explain nothing. Give me a
> short, relatively straight forw
On Wed, 2005-07-20 at 23:52 -0700, Steve Lamb wrote:
> Tim Connors wrote:
> > It's not that clear!
>
> It's clear enough for people who are interesed in finding an answer to be
> able to do so. I agree it could provide more information. But that does not
> mean it isn't clear.
>
I have to
Please don't CC, it is against list policy.
Ian Greenhoe wrote:
> The difference between sufficient and clear is the difference between
> "Error: 2" and "Error: Access denied." They both mean the same thing,
> at least according to errno. :)
Y... And what's the difference betwe
Steve Lamb <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> Tim Connors wrote:
>> Or what about
>> automatically doubling each time it runs out of room, and starting again
>> (along with an appropriate warning message as to how not to keep doing
>> this)?
>
> Kinda defeats the purpose of limiting the amount of s
Tim Connors wrote:
> It's not that clear!
It's clear enough for people who are interesed in finding an answer to be
able to do so. I agree it could provide more information. But that does not
mean it isn't clear.
--
Steve C. Lamb | I'm your priest, I'm your shrink, I'm you
On Wed, 20 Jul 2005, Steve Lamb wrote:
> Tim Connors wrote:
> > Or what about
> > automatically doubling each time it runs out of room, and starting again
> > (along with an appropriate warning message as to how not to keep doing
> > this)?
>
> Kinda defeats the purpose of limiting the amount
Tim Connors wrote:
> Or what about
> automatically doubling each time it runs out of room, and starting again
> (along with an appropriate warning message as to how not to keep doing
> this)?
Kinda defeats the purpose of limiting the amount of space the process
uses. I mean which is better, a
On Wed, 20 Jul 2005, Adam Aube wrote:
> Will Ness wrote:
>
> > I have an old laptop that I installed debian on. Everything works
> > except apt!! Everytime I run apt, it does its thing but at the very
> > end it says:
> >
> > Error!
> > Dynamic MMap ran out of room
>
> > I did some googling an
AWESOME!! It worked!!
Thank you all for helping me out!!! This msg is getting archived!! LOL
Thank you again!!
-Will
Will Ness wrote:
> I have an old laptop that I installed debian on. Everything works
> except apt!! Everytime I run apt, it does its thing but at the very
> end it says:
>
> Error!
> Dynamic MMap ran out of room
> I did some googling and got the general response that my Apt cache
> memory li
Maurits van Rees wrote:
>On Wed, Jul 20, 2005 at 02:23:51PM -0400, Will Ness wrote:
>
>
>>Dynamic MMap ran out of room
>>
>>
>(snip)
>
>
>>I did some googling and got the general response that my Apt cache
>>memory limit needed to be expanded/checked/corrected. Others who gave
>>a solution
Will Ness wrote:
>Hello List!!
>
>I have an old laptop that I installed debian on. Everything works
>except apt!! Everytime I run apt, it does its thing but at the very
>end it says:
>
>Error!
>Dynamic MMap ran out of room
>
>(Package name)
>
>Package lists or status file could not be parsed o
On Wed, Jul 20, 2005 at 02:23:51PM -0400, Will Ness wrote:
> Dynamic MMap ran out of room
(snip)
> I did some googling and got the general response that my Apt cache
> memory limit needed to be expanded/checked/corrected. Others who gave
> a solution suggested to look in and edit apt.conf. One prob
On Wed, 2005-07-20 at 14:23 -0400, Will Ness wrote:
> Hello List!!
>
> I have an old laptop that I installed debian on. Everything works
> except apt!! Everytime I run apt, it does its thing but at the very
> end it says:
>
> Error!
> Dynamic MMap ran out of room
>
> (Package name)
>
> Pack
Mr. Jan Hearthstone wrote:
--- Steven Jones <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
Did you just try updating a woody box to sarge
sources.list?
If so take the lines out and update again.
regards
Thing
-Original Message-
From: Mr. Jan Hearthstone
[mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
Sent: Tuesday, 28 September 20
As some people suggested, I put
"APT::Cache-Limit 1000;" in /etc/apt/apt.conf
(that I had to create).
THANKS to everybody (there was a number of replies);
Also in future I'll try to be more mindfull to use a
search engine first.
Sincerely - Mr. Jan Hearthstone.
=
Modelling the
--- Rob Benton <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Mr. Jan Hearthstone wrote:
> >I am geting a mesage from "apt-get" that: ...
> >"Reading Package Lists... Error!
> >E: Dynamic MMap ran out of room
> >E: Read error - read (14 Bad address)
> >E: The package lists or status file could
--- Steven Jones <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Did you just try updating a woody box to sarge
> sources.list?
>
> If so take the lines out and update again.
>
> regards
>
> Thing
>
> -Original Message-
> From: Mr. Jan Hearthstone
> [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> Sent: Tuesday, 28 Septembe
--- Rob Benton <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Mr. Jan Hearthstone wrote:
> >I am geting a mesage from "apt-get" that: ...
> >"Reading Package Lists... Error!
> >E: Dynamic MMap ran out of room
> >E: Read error - read (14 Bad address)
> >E: The package lists or status file could
Mr. Jan Hearthstone wrote:
I am geting a mesage from "apt-get" that: ...
"Reading Package Lists... Error!
E: Dynamic MMap ran out of room
E: Read error - read (14 Bad address)
E: The package lists or status file could not be
parsed or opened."
I don't get any xwindows, so whatever
On Tue, 2004-09-28 at 00:22, Mr. Jan Hearthstone wrote:
>I am geting a mesage from "apt-get" that: ...
>"Reading Package Lists... Error!
>E: Dynamic MMap ran out of room
>E: Read error - read (14 Bad address)
>E: The package lists or status file could not be
> parsed or opened."
Did you just try updating a woody box to sarge sources.list?
If so take the lines out and update again.
regards
Thing
-Original Message-
From: Mr. Jan Hearthstone [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
Sent: Tuesday, 28 September 2004 4:23 p.m.
To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: "Dynamic MMap ran out of
On Mon, 27 Sep 2004 21:22:40 -0700 (PDT)
"Mr. Jan Hearthstone" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>I am geting a mesage from "apt-get" that: ...
>"Reading Package Lists... Error!
>E: Dynamic MMap ran out of room
>E: Read error - read (14 Bad address)
>E: The package lists or status fil
begin quotation of Mr. Jan Hearthstone on 2004-09-27 21:22:40 -0700:
>I am geting a mesage from "apt-get" that: ...
>"Reading Package Lists... Error!
>E: Dynamic MMap ran out of room
>E: Read error - read (14 Bad address)
>E: The package lists or status file could not be
> par
On Tue, Feb 18, 2003 at 09:46:20PM +, Adam Robson wrote:
> While trying to update or download using apt-get or dselect, i get the
> error message
>
> E: dynamic MMap ran out of room
> and so on..
>
> Creating the file /etc/apt/apt.conf, with contents
> APT::Cache-Limit 25165824 has no effec
While trying to update or download using apt-get or dselect, i get the error
message
E: dynamic MMap ran out of room
and so on..
Creating the file /etc/apt/apt.conf, with contents
APT::Cache-Limit 25165824 has no effect. I should have mentioned a couple
other things:
1. I have only 8MB of RA
Adam Robson wrote:
While trying to download using apt-get or dselect or tasksel, i get the
error message
E: dynamic MMap ran out of room
I've read the solution is to change the /etc/apt/apt.conf file with
APT::Cache-Limit 1000 or some big number, but this file doesn't
appear in that direc
On Sun, 2002-09-08 at 23:15, martin f krafft wrote:
> E: Syntax error /etc/apt/apt.conf:2: Extra junk at end of file
>
> fishbowl:/home/madduck# cat /etc/apt/apt.conf
> APT::Cache-Limits 25165824
Sorry, my mistake, add a semicolon at the end of the line, i.e. :
APT::Cache-Limits 25165824;
T
also sprach Matthias Szupryczynski <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [2002.09.08.0808 +0200]:
> Go to /etc/apt/apt.conf, and add the line 'APT::Cache-Limits xxx', where
> xxx is the desirable size in bytes. Choose something like 12 or 24 M
> ( which would be 12582912 or 25165824 in bytes).
first off, thanks! s
On Sun, 2002-09-08 at 11:30, martin f krafft wrote:
> apt-get update gives me this
>
> Reading Package Lists... Error!
> E: Dynamic MMap ran out of room
> E: Error occured while processing texinfo (NewFileVer1)
> E: Problem with MergeList /var/lib/dpkg/status
> E: The package lists or
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