Bug#210706: apt: out of memory error while reading sid Packages file in woody
Package: apt
Version: 0.5.4
Severity: normal
If a line for the sid archive is added to /etc/apt/sources.list on a
woody system, after `apt-get update' the following error results
[...snip...]
Get:7 http://http.us.debian.org unstable/main Release [82B]
Get:8 http://http.us.debian.org unstable/contrib Packages [83.5kB]
Get:9 http://http.us.debian.org unstable/contrib Release [85B]
Get:10 http://http.us.debian.org unstable/non-free Packages [72.3kB]
Get:11 http://http.us.debian.org unstable/non-free Release [86B]
Fetched 3099kB in 10s (297kB/s)
Reading Package Lists... Error!
E: Dynamic MMap ran out of room
E: Error occured while processing xfprint4 (NewPackage)
E: Problem with MergeList
/var/lib/apt/lists/http.us.debian.org:80_debian_dists_unstable_main_binary-i386_Packages
E: The package lists or status file could not be parsed or opened.
Now I've seen this on a couple of systems with varying, but large,
amounts of RAM. So this looks like a bug. In particular this might
be important for those who wish to upgrad from woody directly to sid.
Note that above error doesn't occur of unstable is replaced by testing.
Hope this helps.
Igor
-- System Information
Debian Release: 3.0
Architecture: i386
Kernel: Linux jahry.physics.utoronto.ca 2.4.18-1-586tsc #2 Sun Aug 10 09:12:21 EST 2003 i586
Locale: LANG=C, LC_CTYPE=C
Versions of packages apt depends on:
ii libc6 2.3.1-16 GNU C Library: Shared libraries an
ii libstdc++2.10-glibc2.2 1:2.95.4-11woody1 The GNU stdc++ library
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