Re: dpkg/apt problem: /var/lib/dpkg/status bad!
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 <kerka@dinmont.cz>
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Magnus Therning (magus@lysator.liu.se)
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