Re: update
On Mon, Sep 13, 2004 at 09:43:41PM +0200, btom@passagen.se wrote:
> Hi,
> I havent updated since woody but I recently had a go at it. This is my sources.list:
> ---------------------------------------------------------------------
> #deb cdrom:[Debian GNU/Linux 3.0 r1 _Woody_ - Official i386 Binary-1 (20021218)]
> / unstable contrib main non-US/contrib non-US/main
> deb http://http.us.debian.org/debian stable main contrib non-free
> deb http://non-us.debian.org/debian-non-US stable/non-US main contrib non-free
> deb http://security.debian.org stable/updates main contrib non-free
>
> #testing stuff
> deb http://http.us.debian.org/debian testing main contrib non-free
> deb http://non-us.debian.org/debian-non-US testing/non-US main contrib non-free
> deb http://security.debian.org testing/updates main contrib non-free
> ----------------------------------------------------------------------
>
> and this is the error message I get when running 'apt-get update'
> ...
> Get:15 http://http.us.debian.org testing/non-free Release [85B]
>
> Fetched 3435kB in 10m54s (5249B/s)
>
> Failed to fetch http://non-us.debian.org/debian-non-US/dists/stable/non-US/main/binary-i386/Packages
> Something wicked happened resolving 'non-us.debian.org:http' (-3)
> Reading Package Lists... Error!
> E: Dynamic MMap ran out of room
> E: Error occured while processing pcregrep (NewPackage)
> E: Problem with MergeList /var/lib/apt/lists/http.us.debian.org_debian_dists_testing_main_binary-i386_Packages
> E: The package lists or status file could not be parsed or opened.
>
> Any tips on how to update my system to the most recent stable distro would
> be most appreciated.
This has been asked many times.
To fix it, add:
APT::Cache-Limit 10240000;
to your /etc/apt.conf (create it if you need to).
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