"Dynamic MMap ran out of room" error when adding new apt source list
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"Dynamic MMap ran out of room" error when adding new apt source list
G'day
I've just installed Debian 3.0
I try to install xfce4 as the desktop manager but my "wajig install xfce" installed xfce3... so I added following apt source list to my source list:
# Unstable
deb ftp.de.debian.org/debian unstable main contrib non-free
deb ftp.de.debian.org/debian-non-US unstable/non-US main contrib non-free
# Testing
deb ftp.de.debian.org/pub/debian testing main contrib non-free
deb ftp.de.debian.org/pub/debian-non-US testing/non-US main contrib non-free
*add http after deb :-)*
but this time I get following error when I do a wajig update:
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Reading Package Lists... Error!
E: Dynamic MMap ran out of room
E: Error occured while processing orange (NewVersion1)
E: Problem with MergeList /var/lib/apt/lists/ftp.de.debian.org_debian_dists_unstable_main_binary-i386_Packages
E: The package lists or status file could not be parsed or opened.
update available list script returned error exit status 1.
Press <enter> to continue.
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any help?
cheers
ps:
Alternative to that, how can I install Gnome2+? everytime I try wajig install gnome or gnome core, it can't find it?
Seriously, you can set it to how much you like but keep in mind not to let it fill /var or worse /.
"apt-get clean" or "aptitude clean" now and then would clean up the /var/cache/apt/archives so you can manage with a lower limit.
Howdy:
I had the same problem. I increased the cache size, and it did allow me to run sudo apt-get upgrade. But now my sound card is dead. I've had this problem before many times. I'm running Ubuntu Feisty Fawn on a Dell Laptop. Any way to permanently solve this problem without re-installing XP? Thanks.
Howdy:
I had the same problem. I increased the cache size, and it did allow me to run sudo apt-get upgrade. But now my sound card is dead. I've had this problem before many times. I'm running Ubuntu Feisty Fawn on a Dell Laptop. Any way to permanently solve this problem without re-installing XP? Thanks.
yes, but your problem is completely unrelated and you need to create your own thread.
I am having this same problem, and editing the /etc/apt/apt.conf.d file 70debconf is having no effect. I also ran apt-get clean. The whole error message is:
Reading package lists... Error!
E: Dynamic MMap ran out of room
E: Error occurred while processing xmcd (NewFileVer1)
E: Problem with MergeList /var/lib/apt/lists/ftp.debian.org_debian_dists_testing_main_binary-i386_Packages
E: The package lists or status file could not be parsed or opened.
which looks a lot like the error message in the original post. Does anyone know what's wrong?
As a side-note, I am very new to linux (as you have probably guessed) and my boyfriend has most often been the one to make changes. He added some of these- I think everything after the first two...
Ok, well the sources list is a bit of a mess. You have all three branches of Debian enabled (etch/stable, testing and unstable). No matter what else, you probably don't want that. Maybe try to trim it down a bit to this (the # in front of a line makes apt ignore the line):
Quote:
#
# deb cdrom:[Debian GNU/Linux 4.0 r0 _Etch_ - Official i386 NETINST Binary-1 20070407-11:29]/ etch contrib main
#deb cdrom:[Debian GNU/Linux 4.0 r0 _Etch_ - Official i386 NETINST Binary-1 20070407-11:29]/ etch contrib main
Still, you should be able to update your sources list if you have made the cache that large. Try again to do "apt-get clean && apt-get update" after trimming down the sources list. My only other guess is that maybe you have /var in a partition that it filled up? I took out the multimedia repos for the moment, just to see if you can get apt working again.
So, I went and changed the file as directed. Now it doesn't like the sources.list file, though. It says:
E: Type '' is not known on line 1 in source list /etc/apt/sources.list
When cat sources.list, there is a leading space. When I open it in vi, there isn't, so I can't remove it. *sigh*
The whole first line is not needed, so you could open in vim, move up to the first line (you may start there, you may not) and then use "dd" to delete that one line.
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