Bug#310277: upgrade-reports: Aptitude failure during upgrade
Package: upgrade-reports
Severity: normal
Archive date: Sat May 21 19:00:01 UTC 2005
Upgrade date: Sat May 21
uname -a: Linux whinlatter 2.4.18-bf2.4 #1 Son Apr 14 09:53:28 CEST 2002 i686 GNU/Linux
Method: aptitude -f --with-recommends dist-upgrade
Contents of /etc/apt/sources.list:
deb cdrom:[Debian GNU/Linux 3.0 r0 _Woody_ - Official i386 Binary-1 (20020720)]/ unstable contrib main non-US/contrib non-US/main
deb http://ftp.uk.debian.org/debian/ sarge main
deb http://security.debian.org/ sarge/updates main
- Were there any non-Debian packages installed before the upgrade?
No.
- Was the system pre-update a pure woody system?
Yes. Fresh install from 3.0r0 i386 DVD, updated with all current
point release changes and security updates.
- Did any packages fail to upgrade?
No.
- Were there any problems with the system after upgrading?
No.
Further Comments/Problems:
Aptitude broke completely during the upgrade. Here's the log,
and the fix. The fix should be in the release notes (my system
had no APT changes from the defaults):
whinlatter:~# aptitude update
Reading Package Lists...
Building Dependency Tree...Get:1 http://security.debian.org
sarge/updates/main Packages
Get:2 http://security.debian.org sarge/updates/main Release
Get:3 http://ftp.uk.debian.org sarge/main Packages [3360kB]
Get:4 http://ftp.uk.debian.org sarge/main Release [81B]
Reading Package Lists... 72%
Reading Package Lists... Error!
E: Dynamic MMap ran out of room
E: Error occured while processing php4-cli (NewVersion1)
E: Problem with MergeList
/var/lib/apt/lists/ftp.uk.debian.org_debian_dists_sarge_main_binary-i386_Packages
E: The package lists or status file could not be parsed or opened.
whinlatter:~# echo 'APT::Cache-Limit "25165824";' >> /etc/apt/apt.conf
whinlatter:~# aptitude update
Reading Package Lists... Done
Building Dependency Tree... Done
Hit http://ftp.uk.debian.org sarge/main Packages
Hit http://ftp.uk.debian.org sarge/main Release
Hit http://security.debian.org sarge/updates/main Packages
Hit http://security.debian.org sarge/updates/main Release
Reading Package Lists... Done
Building Dependency Tree... Done
whinlatter:~# dpkg -l doc-base
[Excluding the package list: it's not relevant to aptitude breakage.]
Regards,
Roger
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