Bug#172549: apt: Irritating error message

["Jens Müller" <jens.mueller@ira.uka.de>]

Package: apt
Version: 0.5.4
Severity: normal

I got the following error from apt:

Reading Package Lists... Error!
E: Dynamic MMap ran out of room
E: Error occured while processing python (NewVersion1)
E: Problem with MergeList /var/lib/dpkg/status
E: The package lists or status file could not be parsed or opened.

But the reason was that the cache size was to small.

After setting
APT::Cache-Limit 10240000;

it worked.

apt-get should show a better error message.


-- System Information
Debian Release: testing/unstable
Kernel Version: Linux debian.enode.de 2.4.18-k7 #1 Sun Apr 14 13:19:11 EST 2002 i686 unknown unknown GNU/Linux

Versions of the packages apt depends on:
ii  libc6          2.2.5-14.3     GNU C Library: Shared libraries and Timezone
ii  libstdc++2.10- 2.95.4-11      The GNU stdc++ library