On Tue, Jan 06, 2004 at 12:51:56PM -0800, Karsten M. Self wrote: > on Fri, Jan 02, 2004 at 07:58:49PM +0100, Andreas Janssen (andreas.janssen@bigfoot.com) wrote: > > Hello > > > > Karen Larson (<larson@cs.uwp.edu>) wrote: > > > > > I had been installing Debian mixture of stable and testing (needed > > > kernel modules for nic and video that weren't in stable) on a machine > > > before Christmas. I am using the kernel-image 2.4.22-1-686 package > > > from > > > testing. Everything was working before I left for the holiday. Now > > > that I am back and want to get this machine fully ready to use, I ran > > > the 'apt-get update' command and got the following error message: > > > > > > Reading Package Lists... Error! > > > E: Dynamic MMap ran out of room > > > E: Error occured while processing acl-alisp8 (NewVersion1) > > > E: Problem with MergeList > > > > Your apt cache is too small. You can find a solution for your problem in > > the list archive at lists.debian.org or groups.google.com (group > > linux.debian.user). Just search for the error message. > > # echo 'APT::Cache-Limit "25165824";' >> /etc/apt/apt.conf > Hi list, it seems that random newbies come across this. And it seems like a simple fix to set this Apt variable. Coun't Apt be set with a more reasonable value so that this simple problem can be avoided in MOST cases? Or how do you figure this value? -Kev
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