[NBLUG/talk] Deja-vu with apt-get database errors

[Eric Eisenhart]

On Fri, Jan 20, 2006 at 04:56:35PM -0800, Lincoln Peters wrote:
> I seem to remember that I had this problem when I once installed Debian/Woody 
> and subsequently tried to upgrade to Debian/Sarge.  I'm now running 
> Debian/Etch, and I seem to have encountered the same problem.  And now I 
> can't remember how I fixed the problem the first time!
> 
> The relevant output from apt-get is:
> 
> Reading package lists...
> E: Dynamic MMap ran out of room
> E: Error occurred while processing libdbi-ocaml (NewVersion1)
> E: Problem with MergeList /var/lib/dpkg/status
> E: The package lists or status file could not be parsed or opened.

/etc/apt/apt.conf:
APT::Cache-Limit "14194304";

Smaller number might work fine; or it might need a bigger number...
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Eric Eisenhart
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