Package: apt
Version: 0.8.15.9
Severity: wishlist
Dear Maintainer,
*** Please consider answering these questions, where appropriate ***
* What led up to the situation?
I ran "apt-get upgrade"
* What exactly did you do (or not do) that was effective (or
ineffective)?
The crash message suggested how to fix it. But this ought to be automatic.
* What was the outcome of this action?
E: Dynamic MMap ran out of room. Please increase the size of
APT::Cache-Limit. Current value: 32505856. (man 5 apt.conf)
Reading package lists... Error!
E: Unable to increase the size of the MMap as the limit of 32000000
bytes is already reached.
E: Dynamic MMap ran out of room. Please increase the size of
APT::Cache-Limit. Current value: 32505856. (man 5 apt.conf)
E: Error occurred while processing darkplaces (NewVersion2)
E: Problem with MergeList
/var/lib/apt/lists/ftp.fi.debian.org_debian_dists_unstable_main_binary-amd64_Packages
E: The package lists or status file could not be parsed or opened.
* What outcome did you expect instead?
The system upgrading itself.
*** End of the template - remove these lines ***
As a programmer, I understand what happened. But it seems like a design
bug to me.
There is a mmap limit in the config, and the admin is told how to
increase it
when the limit disrupts the system.
This limit seems to have no use - because the admin has no real choice
here. He MUST
increase the limit, or stop using "apt-get upgrade". So the code might as
well do this automatically: Set the mmap limit based on the size of
files to process. If that is not feasible, use a loop that double the
limit and retry processing until it works. This approach may of course
end badly on a memory constrained system, but that just means apt-get
cannot be used on such a system.
Telling users to make mandatory changes that can
be done programmatically is not user-friendly.
Unless there is a hidden risk - but a system that will crash from memory
overuse will crash anyway - it won't matter if it is
a program or the user that increase the limit.
I solved my problem by doubling the limit, but I don't know
if that will be enough forever, or what the maximum limit
on this machine is. I don't have "better information" than
the software has.
-- Package-specific info:
-- apt-config dump --
APT "";
APT::Architecture "amd64";
APT::Build-Essential "";
APT::Build-Essential:: "build-essential";
APT::Install-Recommends "1";
APT::Install-Suggests "0";
APT::Authentication "";
APT::Authentication::TrustCDROM "true";
APT::NeverAutoRemove "";
APT::NeverAutoRemove:: "^firmware-linux.*";
APT::NeverAutoRemove:: "^linux-firmware$";
APT::NeverAutoRemove:: "^linux-image.*";
APT::NeverAutoRemove:: "^kfreebsd-image.*";
APT::NeverAutoRemove:: "^linux-restricted-modules.*";
APT::NeverAutoRemove:: "^linux-ubuntu-modules-.*";
APT::NeverAutoRemove:: "^gnumach$";
APT::NeverAutoRemove:: "^gnumach-image.*";
APT::Never-MarkAuto-Sections "";
APT::Never-MarkAuto-Sections:: "metapackages";
APT::Never-MarkAuto-Sections:: "restricted/metapackages";
APT::Never-MarkAuto-Sections:: "universe/metapackages";
APT::Never-MarkAuto-Sections:: "multiverse/metapackages";
APT::Never-MarkAuto-Sections:: "oldlibs";
APT::Never-MarkAuto-Sections:: "restricted/oldlibs";
APT::Never-MarkAuto-Sections:: "universe/oldlibs";
APT::Never-MarkAuto-Sections:: "multiverse/oldlibs";
APT::Cache-Limit "64000000";
APT::Architectures "";
APT::Architectures:: "amd64";
Dir "/";
Dir::State "var/lib/apt/";
Dir::State::lists "lists/";
Dir::State::cdroms "cdroms.list";
Dir::State::mirrors "mirrors/";
Dir::State::extended_states "extended_states";
Dir::State::status "/var/lib/dpkg/status";
Dir::Cache "var/cache/apt/";
Dir::Cache::archives "archives/";
Dir::Cache::srcpkgcache "srcpkgcache.bin";
Dir::Cache::pkgcache "pkgcache.bin";
Dir::Etc "etc/apt/";
Dir::Etc::sourcelist "sources.list";
Dir::Etc::sourceparts "sources.list.d";
Dir::Etc::vendorlist "vendors.list";
Dir::Etc::vendorparts "vendors.list.d";
Dir::Etc::main "apt.conf";
Dir::Etc::netrc "auth.conf";
Dir::Etc::parts "apt.conf.d";
Dir::Etc::preferences "preferences";
Dir::Etc::preferencesparts "preferences.d";
Dir::Etc::trusted "trusted.gpg";
Dir::Etc::trustedparts "trusted.gpg.d";
Dir::Bin "";
Dir::Bin::methods "/usr/lib/apt/methods";
Dir::Bin::dpkg "/usr/bin/dpkg";
Dir::Media "";
Dir::Media::MountPath "/media/apt";
Dir::Log "var/log/apt";
Dir::Log::Terminal "term.log";
Dir::Log::History "history.log";
Dir::Ignore-Files-Silently "";
Dir::Ignore-Files-Silently:: "~$";
Dir::Ignore-Files-Silently:: "\.disabled$";
Dir::Ignore-Files-Silently:: "\.bak$";
Dir::Ignore-Files-Silently:: "\.dpkg-[a-z]+$";
Dir::Ignore-Files-Silently:: "\.save$";
Dir::Ignore-Files-Silently:: "\.orig$";
Acquire "";
Acquire::cdrom "";
Acquire::cdrom::mount "/media/cdrom/";
Acquire::Languages "";
Acquire::Languages:: "en";
Acquire::Languages:: "none";
Acquire::Languages:: "da";
Acquire::Languages:: "nb";
Unattended-Upgrade "";
Unattended-Upgrade::Origins-Pattern "";
Unattended-Upgrade::Origins-Pattern::
"origin=Debian,archive=stable,label=Debian-Security";
DPkg "";
DPkg::Pre-Install-Pkgs "";
DPkg::Pre-Install-Pkgs:: "/usr/sbin/dpkg-preconfigure --apt || true";
DPkg::Post-Invoke "";
DPkg::Post-Invoke:: "if [ -x /usr/bin/debsums ]; then /usr/bin/debsums
--generate=nocheck -sp /var/cache/apt/archives; fi";
DPkg::Post-Invoke:: "which dzhandle >/dev/null && dzhandle
restart-pending-instances || true";
CommandLine "";
CommandLine::AsString "apt-config dump";
-- /etc/apt/preferences --
Package:*
Pin: release a=stable
Pin-Priority:800
Package: *
Pin: release a=testing
Pin-Priority: 900
Package: *
Pin: release a=unstable
Pin-Priority: 800
Package: *
Pin: release a=experimental
Pin-Priority: 700
Package: *
Pin: release o=Debian
Pin-Priority: -10
-- /etc/apt/sources.list --
#
# deb cdrom:[Debian GNU/Linux 4.0 r1 _Etch_ - Official amd64 NETINST
Binary-1 20070820-20:16]/ etch contrib main
#deb cdrom:[Debian GNU/Linux 4.0 r1 _Etch_ - Official amd64 NETINST
Binary-1 20070820-20:16]/ etch contrib main
#Debian
deb http://ftp.fi.debian.org/debian/ stable main contrib non-free
deb http://ftp.fi.debian.org/debian/ testing main contrib non-free
deb http://ftp.fi.debian.org/debian/ unstable main contrib non-free
#deb http://ftp.fi.debian.org/debian/ experimental main contrib non-free
#deb-src http://ftp.fi.debian.org/debian/ etch main
#Debian multimedia
#deb http://www.debian-multimedia.org stable main non-free
#deb http://www.debian-multimedia.org testing main non-free
#deb http://www.debian-multimedia.org sid main non-free
#deb http://www.debian-multimedia.org experimental main
#deb http://security.debian.org/ etch/updates main contrib
#deb-src http://security.debian.org/ etch/updates main contrib
#initng:
#deb http://debian.space-based.de/debs/ experimental main
#libdvdcss
#deb http://download.videolan.org/pub/videolan/debian sid main
#Stable nvidia drivers no longer in the usual repositories
#deb http://snapshot.debian.net/archive pool nvidia-graphics-drivers
#deb-src http://snapshot.debian.net/archive pool nvidia-graphics-drivers
-- System Information:
Debian Release: wheezy/sid
APT prefers testing
APT policy: (900, 'testing'), (800, 'unstable'), (800, 'stable')
Architecture: amd64 (x86_64)
Kernel: Linux 3.2.0-1-amd64 (SMP w/2 CPU cores)
Locale: LANG=nb_NO.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=nb_NO.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8)
Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/bash
Versions of packages apt depends on:
ii debian-archive-keyring 2010.08.28
ii gnupg 1.4.11-3
ii libc6 2.13-24
ii libgcc1 1:4.6.2-11
ii libstdc++6 4.6.2-11
ii zlib1g 1:1.2.3.4.dfsg-3
apt recommends no packages.
Versions of packages apt suggests:
ii apt-doc <none>
ii aptitude 0.6.4-1.2
ii bzip2 1.0.6-1
ii dpkg-dev 1.16.1.2
ii lzma <none>
ii python-apt 0.8.0
ii synaptic 0.75.4
-- debconf-show failed
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