Re: APT stopped working - MMap ran out of room
On Monday 26 May 2003 09:26, Hamid wrote:
> Hi
>
> I just added a new line to source.list in /etc/apt and then entered
> # apt-get update
>
> And now I have a nasty message:
> ----------------------------
> Reading Package Lists... Error!
> E: Dynamic MMap ran out of room
> E: Error occured while processing trophy (NewVersion1)
> E: Problem wiith MergeList
> /var/lib/apt/lists/debian.lcs.mit.edu_debian_dists_unstable_main_binary-i38
>6_Packages E: The package lists or status file could not be parsed or opened
> ------------------------------
> As far as the mentioned file is concerned, I have it in that folder with
> almost a size of 8 MB
>
> Any help is appreciated
> Thanks
> Hamid
This error keeps coming up, and it strikes me that perhaps the default size of
the MMap needs to be changed. Either this is due to the increase in number of
packages, or the increasing use of unofficial .deb sites such as those to get
XFree 4.3 and KDE 3 for woody. Either way as the sole purpose in life of
apt-get is to make life easy for everyone maintaining Debian systems, it is
currently failing in that everyone (or at least a large number of people) need
to make this configuration change. Surely it should normally not be necessary
to adjust a configuration item (at least one of this nature) to cope with
normal useage?
David
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