Re: apt-get update fails with "Dynamic MMap ran out of room"

[Wayne Topa <brittman@capital.net>]

Rupa Schomaker(rupa-list@rupa.com) is reported to have said:
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> I run a mix of sid/sarge/woody/+KDE3.  I recently did a "apt-get
> update" and got the following error:
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> E: Dynamic MMap ran out of room
> E: Error occured while processing gnome-applets (NewVersion1)
> E: Problem with MergeList /var/lib/dpkg/status
> E: The package lists or status file could not be parsed or opened.
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> Has anyone else run into this problem and resolved it?  If not, I'll
> go ahead an open a bug report...

Suggest you check the mail archives.  Many have had the problem and
there have been solutions suggested.  One of which was to limit the
number of different entries in your sources.list.  That has fixed it
twice for me.  Pretty soon I will have a blank sources.list tho.

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