Re: upgrade Woody to Sarge

[Alan Chandler <alan@chandlerfamily.org.uk>]

On Sunday 25 January 2004 10:10 am, john gennard wrote:
> On a new hard drive, I've installed a basic Woody (ex the 7 CD set) to
> use to
> upgrade to Sarge.
>
> In /etc/apt/sources.list I put:-
>         'deb http://http.us.debian.org/debian testing main contrib
> non-free' and ran:-            'apt-get update'
>
> Things seemed to go fine initially, but I finished with the following
> error:-
>
> ----------
> [snip]
> Fetched 2827kB in 38s .......
> Reading Package Lists ... Error!
> E.  Dynamic MMap ran out of room
> E.  Error occured while processing vrwave (NewVersion2)
> E.  Problem with MergeList /var/lib/apt/lists/

Have you run out of disk space in /var ?  - or alternatively perhaps in /tmp 
or swap


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Alan Chandler
alan@chandlerfamily.org.uk