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Re: Problem with apt-get update



On Mon, Nov 04, 2002 at 09:26:55AM +0100, Pierre Burri wrote:
> Hi
> after installing a minimal potato system , I wanted to make an update with 
> "apt-get update" and got the following error (this output is after a secopnd 
> try):
> 
,,,.....
> Reading Package Lists...
> E: Dynamic MMap ran out of room
> E: Error occured while processing pcmcia-modules-2.4.19-386 (NewVersion1)
> E: Problem with MergeList 
> /var/state/apt/lists/ftp.de.debian.org_debian_dists_sid_main_binary-i386_Packages
> E: Unable to write mmap - msync (12 Cannot allocate memory)
> E: The package lists or status file could not be parsed or opened.
> 
> is there an easy way out?

Just cut all unused sources in /etc/sources.list

deb-src of stable is not needed 

You are hitting memory size limit 

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