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Bug#240050: repeat info



On Fri, Mar 26, 2004 at 10:27:42AM +0000, owen beresford wrote:

> Yes it is a sensible guess that it was what I did that 
> induced the error.
> That is why I attached a section of the root bash history 
> log, and the current sources list file.

The history file does provide any useful information.

> I updated my list of package servers, as I was getting lots 
> of 404 errors
> At this point it said something to the effect of 
> "not enuf room for the MMap"
> Via googling, I discover reducing the number of package 
> servers solves this, so I did.

OK.  This is all information that you left out of your report; this
immediately preceded the error.

> I have deleted all the buffers I am aware of
> /var/cache/apt/*.bin and /var/cache/apt/partial/* 
> So this shouldn't be corrupt data
> 
> **Are there any other potentionaly corrupt buffers I should delete?**

If you suspect that your filesystem could be corrupted, that could certainly
cause this.  You could try debsums or a similar tool as a first step..

> **Is there an extra verbous-ness switch to provide more internal 
> state information?**

Nothing relevant to your symptoms.

> deb http://ftp.uk.debian.org/debian/ stable main 
> deb http://ftp.uk.debian.org/debian/ woody main 
> deb http://ftp.uk.debian.org/debian/ testing main

"stable" and "woody" are the same; you are downloading the same list of
packages twice.  Comment out one of them.

> ###########################################################################
> # Below are sites you may want to consider adding but are commented out
> #
> # -----[ Uncomment below for HELIX CODE site (GNOME) ]-----
> # deb http://spidermonkey.ximian.com/distributions/debian unstable main
> # -----[ Uncomment below for KDE site (& Kdevelop)   ]-----
> # deb http://kde.tdyc.com potato main crypto optional qt1apps
> # -----[ Uncomment below for debian security         ]-----
> # deb http://security.debian.org stable/updates main contrib non-free

Where did these come from?  Do you have unofficial packages installed on
your system?

-- 
 - mdz



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