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

[Goswin von Brederlow <brederlo@informatik.uni-tuebingen.de>]

"Arnold J. Fischer" <arnold.j.fischer@web.de> writes:

> 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.

Its an old bug with a well known Soltution.

Google for the error message or read the BTS for apt.

MfG
        Goswin