-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 kmself@ix.netcom.com scripsit: >On Wed, Jul 12, 2000 at 02:15:49PM +0200, Jens Luedicke wrote: >> Hi there ... >> >> I messed up some files on my system and needed to >> reinstall everything again. When I was finished with >> all my packages I wanted to run "apt-get update". >> >> apt-get fetched all the lists but when it was reading/parsing >> the lists, I got an error message: >> >> E: Dynamic MMap ran out of room! >> ... >> >> What wrong here? > >Looks suspiciously as if you're out of memory. Not unlikely when trying >to install a mess of packages. What's your memory situation look like? >Swap?
It's not exactly the same thing, but I'd like to give you a warn (I know, I know, I sould signal it as a bug... I'll do). In the In the "Installing Debian/Linux 2.1 for Intel x86" document they say, about partitioning (section 4.2. Planing the use of the System"): [...] Notably, the Debian '/var' partition contains a lot of state information. [...], you should usually allocate at least 50Mb for /var. Well, I did it. I even allocated 128Mb, just to be on the sure side. But during istallation it crashed. Infact, apt uses a subdirectory of /var to put packages dowloaded but not yet installed and at installation time you need a lot of packages. Then it seems to me that there are only two alternatives: make an huge /var partition, knowing that there will be a lot of unused space after your installation is complete, or don't make a partition neither of /var nor /usr, make a huge / partition and let the system use the space as it needs. bye - -- The Hobbit -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.0.1 (GNU/Linux) Comment: Processed by Mailcrypt 3.5.5 and Gnu Privacy Guard <http://www.gnupg.org/> iD8DBQE5bW2dv9iOG/S6owkRApaKAJ9clehbHX+sW/qlrf5REvl7WqtTIwCgk1ty 29Yn9qqZFhAze1B7OUXGnOU= =1J19 -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----
