Bug#310375: successful woody->sarge upgrade on sparc64

[Julien Cristau <julien.cristau@ens-lyon.fr>]

On 24/05/2005-15:13, Bill Allombert wrote:

> On Mon, May 23, 2005 at 10:15:25AM +0200, Julien Cristau wrote:
> > I first tried to add the same 3 lines with "stable" replaced by "sarge",
> > leaving the previous ones uncommented, but this caused both aptitude and
> > apt-get to segfault. When I removed the "stable" lines, everything
> > worked again. 
> 
> Hello Julien,
> 
> The release notes now include the following work-around:
> ----
> 4.3.1 Possible issues during upgrade
> 
> If an operation using aptitude, apt-get or dpkg fails with the error
> 
>      E: Dynamic MMap ran out of room
> 
> the default cache space is insufficient. You can solve this by either
> removing or commenting lines you don't need in /etc/apt/sources.list or
> by increasing the cache size. The cache size can be increased by setting
> APT::Cache-Limit in /etc/apt/apt.conf. The following command will set it
> to a value that should be sufficient for the upgrade:
> 
>      echo 'APT::Cache-Limit "12500000";' >> /etc/apt/apt.conf
> 
> This assumes that you do not yet have this variable set in that file.
> ----
> (Thanks to Frans Pop)
> 
> so I am closing this bug.
> 
Hi Bill,

I did not have such an error message from apt when it failed, only
"Segmentation fault".
I think the release notes could mention this together with the "Dynamic
MMap ran out of room" error message, since it seems to be related (and
having fewer lines in sources.list fixes it too; I didn't try setting
APT::Cache-Limit in apt.conf, but it would probably work).
Downgrading apt and aptitude to the woody version and running
apt{-get,itude} update gives the "E: Dynamic MMap ran out of room"
message, so I don't know why it was segfaulting when I first tried to
upgrade.

Cheers,
Julien