On Fri, Mar 26, 2004 at 10:27:42AM +0000, owen beresford wrote: > Yes it is a sensible guess that it was what I did that > induced the error. > That is why I attached a section of the root bash history > log, and the current sources list file.
The history file does provide any useful information. > I updated my list of package servers, as I was getting lots > of 404 errors > At this point it said something to the effect of > "not enuf room for the MMap" > Via googling, I discover reducing the number of package > servers solves this, so I did. OK. This is all information that you left out of your report; this immediately preceded the error. > I have deleted all the buffers I am aware of > /var/cache/apt/*.bin and /var/cache/apt/partial/* > So this shouldn't be corrupt data > > **Are there any other potentionaly corrupt buffers I should delete?** If you suspect that your filesystem could be corrupted, that could certainly cause this. You could try debsums or a similar tool as a first step.. > **Is there an extra verbous-ness switch to provide more internal > state information?** Nothing relevant to your symptoms. > deb http://ftp.uk.debian.org/debian/ stable main > deb http://ftp.uk.debian.org/debian/ woody main > deb http://ftp.uk.debian.org/debian/ testing main "stable" and "woody" are the same; you are downloading the same list of packages twice. Comment out one of them. > ########################################################################### > # Below are sites you may want to consider adding but are commented out > # > # -----[ Uncomment below for HELIX CODE site (GNOME) ]----- > # deb http://spidermonkey.ximian.com/distributions/debian unstable main > # -----[ Uncomment below for KDE site (& Kdevelop) ]----- > # deb http://kde.tdyc.com potato main crypto optional qt1apps > # -----[ Uncomment below for debian security ]----- > # deb http://security.debian.org stable/updates main contrib non-free Where did these come from? Do you have unofficial packages installed on your system? -- - mdz
