Re: problems with apt

[Samuel Thibault <sthibault@debian.org>]

Svante Signell, le Mon 21 May 2012 21:22:22 +0200, a écrit :
> Recently apt stopped working:
> E: Dynamic MMap ran out of room. Please increase the size of
> APT::Cache-Limit. Current value: 25165824. (man 5 apt.conf)
> Reading package lists... Error!
> E: Dynamic MMap ran out of room. Please increase the size of
> APT::Cache-Limit. Current value: 25165824. (man 5 apt.conf)
> E: Error occurred while processing libextlib-ruby-doc (NewFileDesc1)
> E: Problem with
> MergeList /var/lib/apt/lists/ftp.se.debian.org_debian_dists_sid_main_i18n_Translation-en
> E: The package lists or status file could not be parsed or opened.
> 
> Whatever I do to set the cache-limit, apt thinks the size is: 25165824

You must be setting it not exactly the good way; tell us how you do it.

I use a file /etc/apt/apt.conf.d/99perso which contains

APT::Cache-Limit "100000000";

Samuel