Re: [coLinux-devel] 0.5.3pre2: dselect, mmap [ was: klog, dpkg, alloc_pages error ]

[John L. <jo...@su...>]

Ballard Jonathan wrote:

>I added 256MB of a swapfile.  After I added more entries to the
>/etc/apt/sources.list, dselect complained about MMap.
>
>---
>
>Reading Package Lists... Error!
>E: Dynamic MMap ran out of room
>E: Error occured while processing doc-rfc-3000-3999 (NewVersion1)
>E: Problem with MergeList
>/var/lib/apt/lists/http.us.debian.org_debian_dists_testing_non-free_binary-i
>386_Packages
>E: The package lists or status file could not be parsed or opened.
>
>update available list script returned error exit status 1.
>
>---
>
>I did not find any kernel message displayed about the issue.
>Here is my /etc/apt/sources.list:
>
>----
>
>
>deb http://http.us.debian.org/debian stable main contrib non-free
>deb http://http.us.debian.org/debian testing main contrib non-free
>deb http://http.us.debian.org/debian unstable main contrib non-free
>
>  
>
This also happens because of a bug in apt-utils.  In order to upgrade 
apt-utils, you'll need to eliminate all but the testing line in 
sources.list, then do apt-get update.  then apt-get -t testing install 
apt-utils.  After that, your apt-get should work even with all those 
sources...

John