Bug#535325: apt-cache fails in every action
Αρχικό μήνυμα από David Kalnischkies <kalnischkies+debian@gmail.com>:
> Hello Nikos Kokkalis,
>
> first of all: thanks for reporting your issue!
> (i think many people will see this with the current situation on amd64)
>
> > boris@i0n:~$ apt-cache rdepends wine
> > terminate called after throwing an instance of 'std::bad_alloc'
> > what(): std::bad_alloc
> > Aborted
>
> > APT::Cache-Limit "99999999999999999";
>
> You set your Cache-Limit far to high.
> This setting would require a total of
> 99 999 999 999 999 999 Bytes (= 99 Petabyte!)
> of free RAM to generate a new package cache.
> So please choose a value which is more realistic (and actually available).
>
> You should use the default value if possible - if not increase the value
> with this setting a bit and try again (Also consider removing source.list
> entries you don't need - they will only waste space which apt needs here).
>
>
> Best regards / Mit freundlichen Grόίen,
>
> David "DonKult" Kalnischkies
>
>
> P.S.: Bugreports and Information why this setting is actually needed and
> why it is not easy to made the dynamic MMap really dynamic can be found
> in bugreport #195018 and his merged friends.
> http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=195018
>
First of all, David thanks for all.
It seems that it's time to close that bug report. Generally i don't need a
custom Cache-Limit, but ia32-apt-get messed a little the setup and i tried
various things.
I didn't think that this was the fault. :)
Thanks again for all.
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