Re: Bug#86413: apt: status file corrupts, fix undocumented!
On 17 Feb 2001, Ira Abramov wrote:
> Reading Package Lists... Error!
> E: Dynamic MMap ran out of room
> E: Error occured while processing xlibs-dev (NewVersion1)
> E: Problem with MergeList /var/lib/dpkg/status
> E: Unable to write mmap - msync (14 Bad address)
> E: The package lists or status file could not be parsed or opened.
> search on the web finds two such questions that remained unanswered on public lists... sorry I have no more leads myself. could this be some broken library from this week's Sid? this broke about 3-4 days ago.
The problem the last person who reported this had was some kind of weird
config file. Assuming that is not your problem you may want to try
rm /var/cache/apt/*.bin
Jason
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