apt-get and Cache-Limit revisited

["David G. Schlecht" <dschl@powernet.net>]

Hi All,

I'm stuck in update hell. Can anyone help?

I've seen many posts regarding the apt-get problem of "MMap ran out of
room" errors. I've tried all the suggestions and nothing works. I'm
thinking there's something more going on with my system.

I've done "apt-get clean", reduced the sources.list to just a single 
line pointing
to the debian server, removed all my files from the list and cache 
directories,
added APT::Cache-Limit 12000000; to my apt.conf file, and run "apt-get 
update".
And I still get a "MMap ran out of room" error.

I've found that if the apt.conf file says:
APT::Cache-Limit 12000000; then the "apt-config dump" says:
 "APT::Cache-Limit" (with quotes and without a value), but if my 
apt.conf file says:
APT::Cache-Limit "12000000"; then the "apt-config dump" says:
APT::Cache-Limit "12000000";. But, nothing helps, I still get a ran out 
of room
message. Seems that the apt-conf doesn't know how to handle numeric values.

I've tried Cache-Limits from 2MB to 500MB (Physical memory size) in powers
of twos and nothing affects the error.

Am I missing something here?

Any help or ideas would be most appreciated.

-Dave