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Re: synaptic bombs!



On Fri 09 Mar 2012 at 07:09:07 -0600, Kjetil brinchmann Halvorsen wrote:

> This is debian testing, with recent updates.
> 
> When starting synaptic, it explodes, with the following message:
> 
> "E: Unable to increase the size of the MMap as the limit of 8388608 bytes
> is already reached.
> E: Dynamic MMap ran out of room. Please increase the size of
> APT::Cache-Limit. Current value: 25165824. (man 5 apt.conf)
> E: Error occurred while processing python-event-dbg (NewFileDesc1)
> E: Problem with MergeList
> /var/lib/apt/lists/ftp.cl.debian.org_debian_dists_unstable_main_i18n_Translation-en
> E: The package lists or status file could not be parsed or opened.
> E: _cache->open() failed, please report.

The first few links seaching with 'Unable to increase the size of the
MMap as the limit' look useful. I wonder if 'apt-get autoclean' or
'apt-get clean' might restore normality.


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