Bug#214666: apt-get update dies with "Dynamic MMap ran out of room"

["Arnold J. Fischer" <arnold.j.fischer@web.de>]

Package: apt
Version: 0.5.4
Severity: critical

When I tried an update of the available packages, apt-get update contacts my 
usual mirrors and downloads the package lists. After that it tried to 
incorporate them in my system. While reading the package lists I got the 
following error messages

 99% [Working]                Reading Package Lists... 0%  Reading Package 
Lists... 0%  Reading Package Lists... 5%  Reading Package Lists... Error! 
E: Dynamic MMap ran out of room
E: Error occured while processing xfonts-bolkhov-cp1251-misc (NewVersion1)
E: Problem with MergeList /var/lib/dpkg/status
E: The package lists or status file could not be parsed or opened.

This error messages where repeated everytime I tried to use apt-get.
Tools like apt-cache, aptitude, dselect  and the like produced a coredump 
with SIGSEGV or refused to work properly.

The Kernel is a Linux 2.4.18-386, libc6 ist Version: 2.3.2-7

The whole problem start while I updated cypsys and get the same problem as in 
bug
	#211677: cupsys restart hangs when upgrading testing
I rebootet in Single User Mode and afetr that I startet the network by hand 
(Fritz DSL Card) and tried to repair my system by making an 
	apt-get install --reinstall cupsys
That didn't work because the package lists where to old. I made an update 
with 
	apt-get update 
to get the new package lists to get a newer cupsys. That did not work as 
mentioned above.

I think my package management is FUBAR and would apreciate any help.
The cupsys is deactivated in a similar way as mentioned in the mailing from 
Anthony DeRobertis to Richard Kimber according to bug #211677.

	Thanks a lot

		Arnold J. Fischer