On Sun, 2003-01-19 at 12:05, Pigeon wrote: > Hi, > > Just got a set of Woody CDs (thanks Gerald!) to upgrade my slink > system. I've copied them all onto hard drives as iso images and > loopback mounted them (read only) to avoid mucking around swapping CDs. > I then used apt-cdrom to add them all to /etc/apt/sources.list, and > ran apt-get update. It gets 64% of the way through Reading Package > Lists and then segfaults. > > This is of course the slink version of apt, 0.3.11. > The CD-ROM entries in sources.list are the only ones there. > As a wild guess I tried the cache-limit cure for "dynamic mmap ran out > of room" on the theory that maybe an older version of apt didn't give > such a useful error message. It made no difference; varying the limit > didn't affect the 64%. > > I have also tried dselect, but its multi-cd access method doesn't seem > to work; it only lets me tell it about one CD at a time. > > Any ideas on how to get either of these methods working? Since the C > libraries will be upgraded I have no desire to upgrade by hand!
Could you try updating to Potato first? That way, you won't be making such a huge version leap in almost every bit of software in one step. -- +------------------------------------------------------------+ | Ron Johnson, Jr. mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] | | Jefferson, LA USA http://members.cox.net/ron.l.johnson | | | | "Basically, I got on the plane with a bomb. Basically, I | | tried to ignite it. Basically, yeah, I intended to damage | | the plane." | | RICHARD REID, who tried to blow up American Airlines | | Flight 63 | +------------------------------------------------------------+ -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
