On Mon, Sep 22, 2003 at 02:36:15PM +1000, Ben wrote: > I know it's not laptop specific but.. > Just wondering if anyone has had problems with apt-get 'Dynamic MMap' ? > If I try to do an update with the following source list: > deb http://security.debian.org/ stable/updates main > deb ftp://mirror.internode.on.net/pub/debian/ stable main contrib non-free > deb ftp://mirror.internode.on.net/pub/debian/ testing main contrib non-free > deb ftp://mirror.internode.on.net/pub/debian/ unstable main contrib non-free > > I get this error: > Fetched 2826kB in 1m5s (43.2kB/s) > Reading Package Lists... Error! > E: Dynamic MMap ran out of room > E: Error occured while processing gtkam (NewVersion1) > E: Problem with MergeList > /var/lib/apt/lists/mirror.internode.on.net_pub_debian_dists_unstable_main_binary-i386_Packages > E: The package lists or status file could not be parsed or opened. > > In order for apt-get update to work I have to comment out either: > deb ftp://mirror.internode.on.net/pub/debian/ stable main contrib non-free > deb ftp://mirror.internode.on.net/pub/debian/ testing main contrib non-free > > or > deb ftp://mirror.internode.on.net/pub/debian/ unstable main contrib non-fre > > as I am running a hodge podge of testing/unstable I really would like to > be able to use my preferences to define what I am going to download from > unstable > (mainly KDE & X11) whilst getting the rest from testing. Unfortunately > this error stops me from doing this. > > Any clues what is goin wrong? > > ( and any ideas how I would set up preferences to download only kde/X11 > from unstable and everything else from testing? I have been reading the > apt-get howto http://www.debian.org/doc/manuals/apt-howto/index.en.html, > but can't seem to get my head around it!) > > cheers, > > Ben. >
I had the same problem earlier, and had just commented out the stable sources. When I saw your message (before I saw the reply from Marcus Gottwald) I was inspired to try one last time. I have APT::Default-Release "testing"; in my apt.conf. I tried upgrading apt, aptitude, and apt-utils to the latest unstable and adding stable sources back in sources.list, and then everything worked fine (without increasing the cache size). ...Marvin
