Re: aptitude badness and corrupted caches

["linux china" <chinalinux@gmail.com>]

Thanks all, my old Cache-Limit size is too small,
cat /etc/apt/apt.conf
APT::Cache-Limit "12500000";

after I resize it to 300M, the error is gone.

On 8/10/06, Michael Ott <michael@king-coder.de> wrote:
> Hello Todd!
>
> > I'm getting the following errors:
> >
> >     E: The package lists or status file could not be parsed or opened.
> >     Reading package lists... Error!
> >     E: Dynamic MMap ran out of room
> >     E: Error occurred while processing empire-hub (NewFileVer1)
> >     E: Problem with MergeList
> >     /var/lib/apt/lists/mirrors.kernel.org_debian_dists_testing_main_binary-i386_Packages
> >     E: The package lists or status file could not be parsed or opened.
> >
> > I'm not entirely sure what I'm supposed to do about it. What is the
> > "Right Thing" to do when the package list is foobarred like this?
> Resize your cache
>
> #cat /etc/apt/apt.conf | grep Cache
> APT::Cache-Limit "301326592";
>
> CU
>
>   Michael
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