Problem with apt-get update

cccc · 02-14-2009, 05:42 PM

hi

I've tried to update my debian etch stable, but I'm getting this error:

Code:

# apt-get update
Get:1 http://ftp.ch.debian.org etch Release.gpg [386B]
Get:2 http://security.debian.org stable/updates Release.gpg [189B]
Hit http://ftp.ch.debian.org etch Release
Hit http://security.debian.org stable/updates Release
Ign http://ftp.ch.debian.org etch/main Packages/DiffIndex
Ign http://ftp.ch.debian.org etch/main Sources/DiffIndex
Hit http://ftp.ch.debian.org etch/main Packages
Hit http://ftp.ch.debian.org etch/main Sources
Ign http://security.debian.org stable/updates/main Packages/DiffIndex
Ign http://security.debian.org stable/updates/contrib Packages/DiffIndex
Ign http://security.debian.org stable/updates/non-free Packages/DiffIndex
Hit ftp://ftp.de.debian.org stable Release.gpg
Hit http://security.debian.org stable/updates/main Packages
Hit ftp://ftp.de.debian.org stable Release
Hit http://security.debian.org stable/updates/contrib Packages
Hit ftp://ftp.de.debian.org stable/main Packages/DiffIndex
Hit http://security.debian.org stable/updates/non-free Packages
Hit ftp://ftp.de.debian.org stable/contrib Packages/DiffIndex
Hit ftp://ftp.de.debian.org stable/non-free Packages/DiffIndex
Fetched 2B in 1s (1B/s)
Reading package lists... Error!
E: Dynamic MMap ran out of room
E: Error occurred while processing wmcdplay (NewVersion1)
E: Problem with MergeList /var/lib/apt/lists/ftp.de.debian.org_debian_dists_stable_main_binary-i386_Packages
E: The package lists or status file could not be parsed or opened.

my sources.list:

Code:

# cat /etc/apt/sources.list
# sources.list generated by apt-spy v3.1
deb http://ftp.ch.debian.org/debian/ etch main
deb-src http://ftp.ch.debian.org/debian/ etch main

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

#security & none-free
deb http://security.debian.org/ stable/updates main contrib non-free

howto solve this problem?

craigevil · 02-14-2009, 06:04 PM

My guess is because Lenny has been released today as the new stable. I would suggest you upgrade to lenny.

Quote:

See http://www.debian.org/ for information about Debian GNU/Linux.
Four Debian releases are available on the main site:

Debian 4.0r7, or etch. Access this release through dists/oldstable.
Debian 4.0r7 was released Monday, 09 February 2009.

Debian 5.0, or lenny. Access this release through dists/stable
Debian 5.0 was released Saturday, 14 February 2009.

Testing, or squeeze. Access this release through dists/testing. The
current tested development snapshot is named squeeze. Packages which
have been tested in unstable and passed automated tests propogate to
this release.

Unstable, or sid. Access this release through dists/unstable. The
current development snapshot is named sid. Untested candidate
packages for future releases.

Older releases of Debian are at http://archive.debian.org/debian-archive

cccc · 02-14-2009, 06:07 PM

I solved this problem !
this happens, because from today Lenny is stable and not Etch.

Code:

# cat /etc/apt/sources.list
# sources.list generated by apt-spy v3.1
deb http://ftp.ch.debian.org/debian/ etch main
deb-src http://ftp.ch.debian.org/debian/ etch main

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

#security & none-free
deb http://security.debian.org/ etch/updates main contrib non-free

#deb http://volatile.debian.org/debian-volatile etch/volatile main contrib non-free

pentode · 02-14-2009, 06:10 PM

Edit (or create) file /etc/apt/apt.conf

Add a line that looks like this:

APT::Cache-Limit "3000000" or some other very large integer. If it still doesn't work, try a bigger number. Not sure what causes this, but this should fix it.

cccc · 02-14-2009, 06:22 PM

thx, I didn't know that today Lenny is stable and not Etch.

I changed in /etc/apt/sources.list from stable to etch and now works well again.

I'll think about the Update to Lenny, but I'm a little bit scared, because there is a very important server.