Bug#160891: dselect: Whatever you changed broke the ability to process large sources.lists
Package: dselect
Version: 1.10.8
Severity: important
I have to comment out the sarge line in /etc/apt/sources.list in order
to complete processing of the command "dselect update", otherwise I get
the error below.
Fetched 2068kB in 32s (63.6kB/s)
Reading Package Lists... Error!
E: Dynamic MMap ran out of room
E: Error occured while processing libccrtp1 (NewPackage)
E: Problem with MergeList /var/lib/dpkg/status
E: The package lists or status file could not be parsed or opened.
update available list script returned error exit status 1.
Press <enter> to continue.
# dpkg -l dselect dpkg apt
Desired=Unknown/Install/Remove/Purge/Hold
| Status=Not/Installed/Config-files/Unpacked/Failed-config/Half-installed
|/ Err?=(none)/Hold/Reinst-required/X=both-problems (Status,Err: uppercase=bad)
||/ Name Version Description
+++-===================-===================-======================================================
ii dselect 1.10.8 a user tool to manage Debian packages
ii dpkg 1.10.8 Package maintenance system for Debian
ii apt 0.5.4 Advanced front-end for dpkg
# wc /etc/apt/sources.list
59 237 2939 /etc/apt/sources.list
-- System Information
Debian Release: post-woody
Kernel Version: Linux phoenix 2.4.19 #1 Mon Aug 5 23:09:57 UTC 2002 i586 unknown unknown GNU/Linux
Versions of the packages dselect depends on:
ii libc6 2.2.5-14.1 GNU C Library: Shared libraries and Timezone
ii libncurses5 5.2.20020112a- Shared libraries for terminal handling
ii libstdc++2.10- 2.95.4-11 The GNU stdc++ library
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