apt-get error
 

Something happened to my apt-get one of the last times I used it, and it (and its frontends kpackage and synaptic) don't work anymore. When I run Synaptic, it immediately says this, and then crashes.
I don't remember exactly what I did with the settings last time, but I think I just turned one (or more) or the repositories (probably Debian Sid--I think I was looking for something there) on or off. But in this state, apt-get is unusable.

Now I just discovered another strange thing: Synaptic crashed, but I can't start it again because of this message:
I went into the process table and tried to kill the old instance of Synaptic, but it says I have insufficient permissions.

A root or use sudo, in a terminal type

Well, my problem is partly solved. The error message indicates that it has something to do with my having the Debian Lenny backports repository in my repositories list, so I removed that entry. That is unfortunate, because lenny-backports has been useful. But it's given me trouble before: http://www.linuxquestions.org/questi...ic-key-774053/

Did you fixed this error ?

Getting "E: Dynamic MMap ran out of room" when using apt-get or aptitude? Put the following line into your /etc/apt/apt.conf: APT::Cache-Limit "12582912"; If that file doesn't exist, create it, or put the line in a file in /etc/apt/apt.conf.d/ If you still get the same error, increase the value. Alternatively, delete entries within /etc/apt/sources.list that you don't actually need.

How many repos do you have in your sources.list?

Just having stable, security, backports, volatile, and even debian-multimedia.org should be fine.

Getting "E: Dynamic MMap ran out of room" when using apt-get or aptitude? Put the following line into your /etc/apt/apt.conf: APT::Cache-Limit "12582912"; If that file doesn't exist, create it, or put the line in a file in /etc/apt/apt.conf.d/ If you still get the same error, increase the value. Alternatively, delete entries within /etc/apt/sources.list that you don't actually need.

How many repos do you have in your sources.list?

Just having stable, security, backports, volatile, and even debian-multimedia.org should be fine.

I currently have seven repositories in my sources list. It says:
The Lenny backports repo is now there because, since I understand that the problem seems to be too many repositories, I deleted the Sid repo so I would have room for lenny-backports.

I am thoroughly puzzled by this problem, because it started only a few days ago. I used to have nine repositories without a problem. I never had to edit any apt.conf files.

Any reason why you have both debian and mepis sources?

Is this actually a mepis install or a Debian install?

If a mepis install, does mepis recommend to include the Debian sources?

If a Debian install I strongly recommend not to use mepis packages.

Evo2.

It's MEPIS 8. The MEPIS designers must have decided to offer both, because those (excepting the sid and lenny-backports repos) are what MEPIS comes with at installation. However, I chose to activate all of them; I think the Debian repos were off.

But did you tried to solve this errormessage?

Yes, but I haven't tried to modify the files Craig specified yet. My successful temporary solution is to not have all the repos activated at once.

For some reason, the number you specified didn't eliminate the error. I guess I'll increase it.

EDIT: It worked after I changed the nmber to 33333333. I picked a number, because you didn't explain the significance of 12582912.

so
33333333 is > then 20000000