On Wed, Jan 01, 2003 at 06:16:59PM -0500, Ian D. Stewart wrote: > On 2002.12.31 00:25 Adahma wrote: > >I get the following error when trying to use apt-get or dselect: > > > >Hit http://non-us.debian.org unstable/non-US/non-free Release > >Reading Package Lists... Error! > >E: Dynamic MMap ran out of room > >E: Dynamic MMap ran out of room > >E: Error occured while processing liblircclient0 (NewVersion1) > >E: Problem with MergeList /var/lib/dpkg/status > >E: The package lists or status file could not be parsed or opened. > > > >I'm running Sid. I have not seen any related list traffic on such > >an error, so I'm guessing it's just my system, and a hosed file. > >Can anyone give direction on how I might rectify such a problem? > > I've gotten this when the package cache starts to get largish. I > suspect this is an implementation mis-feature, where it tries to store > the entire package repository in memory, or something like that. I > work around it by periodically (i.e., when I get the Dynamic MMap > error) cleaning out the cache via 'apt-get clean'. I'm almost certain that this is not related at all. Someone else posted the actual fix below. -rob
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