Aptitude giving error after "apt-get update"

ciden · 03-21-2008, 01:18 PM

I updated my package lists using
apt-get update

Now aptitude is giving me this problem.
I tried repeating the above command but to no avail.

what should i do?

Code:

Reading package lists... Error!
E: Dynamic MMap ran out of room
E: Error occurred while processing libkrb53 (NewVersion1)
E: Problem with MergeList /var/lib/dpkg/status
E: The package lists or status file could not be parsed or opened.

pljvaldez · 03-21-2008, 01:37 PM

http://vdachev.net/blog/2006/11/13/a...n-out-of-room/

Oh, and typically you should just use aptitude all the time as it is superior to apt-get. Just run aptitude update instead of apt-get update and aptitude install foobar instead of apt-get install foobar.

rickh · 03-21-2008, 03:56 PM

Read all the comments on the post pjvaldez linked. The real problem is probably that your sources.list file is a mess, and while increasing the cache is an ugly, ugly hack that will probably work, studying the apt howto would probably be a very good idea.

pljvaldez · 03-21-2008, 04:24 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by rickh

Read all the comments on the post pjvaldez linked. The real problem is probably that your sources.list file is a mess, and while increasing the cache is an ugly, ugly hack that will probably work, studying the apt howto would probably be a very good idea.

Maybe I should have read all the comments too.

ciden: can you post your /etc/apt/sources.list file?

ciden · 03-22-2008, 01:51 AM

Code:

#Testing
#deb http://http.us.debian.org/debian/ testing main contrib non-free 
#deb http://non-us.debian.org/debian-non-US testing/non-US main contrib non-free

# deb cdrom:[Debian GNU/Linux testing _Etch_ - Official Snapshot i386 Binary-1 (20061111)]/ etch main

#deb cdrom:[Debian GNU/Linux testing _Etch_ - Official Snapshot i386 Binary-1 (20061111)]/ etch main

# Line commented out by installer because it failed to verify:
#deb http://security.debian.org/ etch/updates main
# Line commented out by installer because it failed to verify:
#deb-src http://security.debian.org/ etch/updates main

deb file:/root debs/

deb file:/home/karthik debs/

#codecs
#deb http://www.debian-multimedia.org/ etch main

deb ftp://ftp.debian.org/debian stable main contrib non-free

deb ftp://ftp.debian.org/debian testing main contrib non-free

Well my soutces.list used to work fine and I have not modified it since. My previous update worked fine.
I remembered that I killed the update process with ctrl-C when it got stuck at 99%, could it have something to do with it.

rickh · 03-22-2008, 02:29 AM

You should take the comments off the security repos. I don't see anything syntactically wrong with them. Most people also use the multimedia repo. I don't know what you're doing with the local repos. Presumably you do, and they are valid.

The reason your cache filled up is because both stable and testing repos are active. I know of no good reason for that. What it means is that you are now running Lenny (testing), not Etch (stable) for all practical purposes. If you have not run a full upgrade, its an unhealthy mix of Etch and Lenny, but predominately Lenny. At this point, I would recommend commenting out the Stable repo, and doing a full upgrade to Lenny. You'll have to upgrade to the Lenny kernel separately. If you want to mix releases (normally Lenny and Sid), you have to use an apt.conf file to identify which one you want to be the primary. If you do upgrade to Lenny, don't forget to change the security repos to Testing, as well.

ciden · 03-22-2008, 03:53 AM

Will comment out the testing release.
My system is old and so I do not wish to install newer versions which could be heavier.

My system _is_ a mix of etch and lenny though.

that fixed it. But how did it not give any problems earlier?