On Thursday 26 May 2005 14:55, Sumeet Madhukar Moghe wrote: > Hi, > I run Debian on my notebook. I am facing a peculiar problem. I cant > apt-get anymore. Anytime I try something with apt-get, it tells me > > Reading package lists...Error! > E: Dynamic MMap ran out of room > E: Dynamic MMap ran out of room > E: Error occured while processing kexi-mysql-driver (NewVersion1) > E: Problem with MergeList /var/lib/dpkg/status > E: The package lists or status file could not be parsed or opened.
First things first: Check if you've fried /var/lib/dpkg/status. I think you should also cp -Rpv /var/lib/dpkg ~/var-lib-dpkg-backup It's around 50M for me. BTW, think twice before restoring, esp. if you've added/removed packages! If I remember correctly, apt first pulls the WHOLE package database to memory. Just push up the limits; with enough RAM available, it should work. [And Sumeet, on a personal note, please try not to do this with KDE maxed out on eyecandy ;-) Try to do this without a GUI. Or maybe in Fluxbox.] > Could someone tell me how to work around this error? I'm at a loss to get > this to work. Create /etc/apt/apt.conf if doesn't exist. Put in the following: APT::Cache-Limit <largenum>; <largenum> is the upper limit in bytes that apt will try to allocate and use. Tailor <largenum> to suit your requirements. hk:) -- The facts expressed here belong to everybody, the opinions to me. The distinction is yours to draw... -- ______________________________________________________________________ Pune GNU/Linux Users Group Mailing List: (plug-mail@plug.org.in) List Information: http://plug.org.in/mailing-list/listinfo/plug-mail Send 'help' to [EMAIL PROTECTED] for mailing instructions.
