Re: problems with apt

[Svante Signell <svante.signell@telia.com>]

On Mon, 2012-05-21 at 21:30 +0200, Samuel Thibault wrote:
> 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";

I have tried adding it to/etc/apt.conf and /etc/apt/apt.conf.d/70debconf