problem with apt

benhanson · 11-30-2005, 02:29 PM

I had the same basic issue and it turned out to be after an upgrade I had passed a certain memory limit for cache size. So removing sources would indeed clear up the issue, but isn't the root of the problem.

I added the line APT::Cache-Limit 102582912;
to my /etc/apt/apt.conf. The number is in bytes, your mileage may vary. That fixed my error immediately.

Ben

crispyleif · 12-01-2005, 04:25 PM

Hi !

I have the same thing, wanted to test the last advice here except my /etc/apt/ folder has no apt.conf file .... ideas about what's wrong ? I'm getting the MMap error..

EDIT::I made a file called apt.conf and put your line in there, seems to work perfectly !

yipee...

benhanson · 12-02-2005, 07:14 AM

Cool.

The byte number I used it totally arbitrary by the way. I have plenty of memory so I think I just added an extra digit to what I read the default was. Might not need to be anywhere near that big, but on my box it didn't seem to cause any issue so I haven't thought about it any more.

Ben

Endorpheus · 12-24-2005, 06:12 PM

I had that happen to me to a while back when my sources.list was humongous. I've since trimmed my list down to include just a few reliable repositories.

To address this error: E: Dynamic MMap ran out of room
Here's what I did:

add/modify this entry in your /etc/apt/apt.conf

Code:

APT::Cache-Limit 10000000;

that seems to fix the "out of room" errors.
Hope this helps someone.