[NMLUG] apt-get problem

[nickf at nickorama.com (Nick Frost)]

Nick Frost wrote:
> 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;

Here's an alternative solution and some more information;

http://rwxii.bitblaster.com/k/11-1-1-031211102449/permlink.hptb

"You may find that you receive an error like the following:

E: Dynamic MMap ran out of room
E: Error occured while processing sqlrelay-sqlite (NewPackage)
E: Problem with MergeList 
/var/lib/apt/lists/ftp.us.debian.org_debian_dists_woody_contrib_binary-i386_Packages
E: The package lists or status file could not be parsed or opened.

This is caused because apt's cache is too small to handle all of the 
packages that are included with stable, testing, and unstable. This is 
also very easy to fix. Add the following line to /etc/apt/apt.conf

APT::Cache-Limit "8388608";"
http://jaqque.sbih.org/kplug/apt-pinning.html


> 
> 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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