Am Samstag 05 September 2009 schrieb Goswin von Brederlow: > Klaus Ethgen <kl...@ethgen.de> writes: > > Hi, > > > > maybe that is an issue for debian-user, so I put it in the To too > > although I am not subscribed there. > > > > If you look to Bug #497617 there is a long time bug in apt first only > > targeting the German translations but now it is independent of the > > locales. > > > > When I run any apt-get command I get the error: > > E: Wow, you exceeded the number of versions this APT is capable of. > > E: Problem with MergeList > > /var/lib/apt/lists/debian.ethz.ch_mirror_debian_dists_experimental_main_b > >inary-i386_Packages E: The package lists or status file could not be > > parsed or opened. > > > > (The second line is just the one which is the drop too much.) > > > > This also happen with all locales set to "C". > > > > The problem is that it is not possible anymore to update the system at > > all. I think that is a very critical bug. > > > > Is it really necessary to break all installations until this bug is > > fixed? It is known long enough for now. > > > > I have the version 0.7.20.2+lenny1 installed, so it seems to be the most > > recent version. (apt-cache doesn't work too so I can only view the web > > site) > > > > Regards > > Klaus >
Maybe this helps, as apt.conf is no more existent: add the following line in /etc/apt/apt.conf.d/20archive APT::Cache-Limit "100000000"; Hope this helps, as it increases memory. I know, this is only a workaround. Good luck! Hans-J. Ullrich -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-devel-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org
