dpkg/apt problem: /var/lib/dpkg/status bad!

[Magnus Therning <magus@lysator.liu.se>]

Can I somehow recreate it? I get the following errors:

# apt-get update
[..]
Reading Package Lists... Error!
E: Dynamic MMap ran out of room
E: Error occured while processing libgnomeprintui-0 (NewVersion1)
E: Problem with MergeList /var/lib/dpkg/status
E: The package lists or status file could not be parsed or opened.
# ls -l /var/lib/dpkg/status
-rw-r--r--    1 root     root      1198143 Jan 15 22:38 /var/lib/dpkg/status

HELP!

/M

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Magnus Therning (magus@lysator.liu.se)