[NMLUG] apt-get problem

[nickf at nickorama.com (Nick Frost)]

Andres Paglayan wrote:
> my apt is going queer,
> after the update i got
> 
> Fetched 10.2MB in 2m58s (57.1kB/s)
> Reading package lists... Error!
> E: Dynamic MMap ran out of room

I think this occurred because the locked memory resource limit is too 
low by default in current linux kernels.

You can fix this by executing;

ulimit -l unlimited

as the user (presumably ROOT) that you are running apt-get as, and then 
re-run apt get and it should work.

the locked memory is displayed by;

ulimit -a

max locked memory       (kbytes, -l) 32

after resetting it to unlimited with ulimit -l unlimited, you can 
restore it to the default, if you want, with;

ulimit -l 32

-Nick




> E: Error occurred while processing coreutils (NewVersion1)
> E: Problem with MergeList /var/lib/dpkg/status
> E: The package lists or status file could not be parsed or opened.
> 
> what's MMap?
> 
> anybody anything similar?
> 
> thx,
> 
> ap
> 
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