On Tue, Feb 17, 2004 at 09:33:23PM +1300, Adam Bogacki wrote: > >E: Unable to parse package file /var/lib/dpkg/status (1) > >E: The package lists or status file could not be parsed or opened. > > I'm seeing an awful lot of this error message at the moment. > It comes up whenever I try to 'apt-get update', 'apt-get remove', 'dselect'.
I saw this on debian-user: http://lists.debian.org/debian-user/2003/debian-user-200301/msg02664.html On Thu, 16 Jan 2003 17:43:46 +0100, Magnus Therning wrote: > On Wed, Jan 15, 2003 at 11:31:14PM +0100, Ing. Vladimir M. Kerka wrote: > > This is definitely so called Dynamic MMap error, this week mentioned > > at least thrice in this list, find solution in archive. > > Hint: in your /etc/apt/apt.conf fill in: APT::Cache-Limit 25165824; > > that solves the problem. > > Wonderful. It took away all the badness :-) Any particular reason for > the number? > > I suppose this will keep on hitting me every now and then as Debian > grows ever bigger, anyone fixing it properly? > > There are two related bugs: 172777 172726 Patrick -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group Mailing List - http://slug.org.au/ Subscription info and FAQs: http://slug.org.au/faq/mailinglists.html
