on Sat, May 01, 2004 at 07:31:07PM +0200, micha (michael.wordehoff@gmx.de) wrote: > First, i'm not on the list, so please cc to me. > > I saw exactly the same problem on a friends laptop, when he trtied to > upgrade to testing. > Maybe it's caused by a misconfigured apt or sth. completely different, but > i should mention that > I run a local apt-proxy version 1.3.6 from Debian stable - without any > problems, since half a year. > > Now i tried to upgrading to testing. After 'updating' to the new sources > list from aptitude ('u') the package lists > seem to have been downloaded into the apt-proxy cache properly. For example: > << > /home mi: ls -l /var/cache/apt-proxy/debian/dists/testing/main/binary-i386/ > -rw-r--r-- 1 aptproxy nogroup 2,8M 2004-04-30 21:00 Packages.gz > -rw-r--r-- 1 aptproxy nogroup 81 2004-04-30 21:18 Release > >> > > But when i start aptitude and it loads the apt cache, there's this error > message: > << > Apt errors > E: Dynamic MMap ran out of room > E: Error occured while processing tqsllib0 (NewVersion1) > E: Problem with MergeList > /var/lib/apt/lists/localhost:9999_debian_dists_testing_main_binary-i386_Packages > E: The package lists or status file could not be parsed or opened. > >> > > There's no package list available, afterwards. > When i request a new (offline) upgrade, it says > << > Ouch! Got SIGSEGV, dying.. > Segmentation fault > >> > > The same occurs with unstable. > Updating the package list still works for stable (woody). > > The package lists for testing and unstable (main) are quite large (> 2,5 MB) > compared to stable. > However i don't understand what's going on. > > This box has 256 MB (mostly unused) RAM and a lot of swap. It runs a kernel > 2.4.5 which never > showed any memory problem. > > Any idea will be greatly appreciated ! # echo 'APT::Cache-Limit "25165824";' >> /etc/apt/atp.conf Peace. -- Karsten M. Self <kmself@ix.netcom.com> http://kmself.home.netcom.com/ What Part of "Gestalt" don't you understand? Ceterum censeo, Caldera delenda est. SCO vs IBM Linux lawsuit info: http://sco.iwethey.org
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