Fixed: apt-get error

[Tom Simons]

Thanks for the help!  Problerm fixed by adding "APT::Cache-Limit
20000000" to apt.conf.
I picked 20000000 because it was slightly bigger than the 19,397,952-byte file:
/var/lib/apt/lists/ftp.debian.org_debian_dists_stable_main_binary-i386_Packages.

On 8/24/07, Tom Simons <tom.simons at gmail.com> wrote:
> I'm trying to do another apt-get update/upgrade on my old Debian box,
> and I'm now getting the error listed below.  I've been doing
> update/upgrades for years, but I'm not really familiar with the
> process (mainly because it always worked).  Can anyone see what's
> wrong?
>
> # apt-get check
> Reading Package Lists... Error!
> E: Dynamic MMap ran out of room
> E: Error occured while processing wsjt (NewVersion1)
> E: Problem with MergeList
> /var/lib/apt/lists/ftp.debian.org_debian_dists_stable_main_binary-i386_Packages
> E: The package lists or status file could not be parsed or opened.
>
> # ls -l /var/lib/apt/lists/ftp.debian.org_debian_dists_stable_main_binary-i386_Packages
> -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 19397952 Aug 15 15:55
> /var/lib/apt/lists/ftp.debian.org_debian_dists_stable_main_binary-i386_Packages
>
> # wc -l /var/lib/apt/lists/ftp.debian.org_debian_dists_stable_main_binary-i386_Packages
>  451195
>
> # sed -n '1,/^Package: wsjt/p'
> /var/lib/apt/lists/ftp.debian.org_debian_dists_stable_main_binary-i386_Packages
> | wc -l
>  426676
>
> # cat apt.conf
> addicks:/etc/apt# cat sources.list
> deb http://lackof.org/taggart/debian woody/chkrootkit main
> deb-src http://lackof.org/taggart/debian woody/chkrootkit main
>
> deb http://ftp.debian.org/debian stable main non-free contrib
> deb-src http://ftp.debian.org/debian stable main non-free contrib
> deb http://non-us.debian.org/debian-non-US stable/non-US main contrib non-free
> deb-src http://non-us.debian.org/debian-non-US stable/non-US main
> contrib non-free
>
> deb http://security.debian.org/ stable/updates main contrib non-free
>