[GLLUG] dselect/apt question

[Adam Pitcher]

I use this setting for the CSE linux lab.
>> cat /etc/apt/apt.conf
APT::Cache-Limit 10000000;


Adam
CSE Systems



On Tue, 2 Mar 2004 10:51:49 -0500, Melson, Paul <PMelson at sequoianet.com> 
wrote:

> I'm setting up dselect on a Debian 3.0 box with the following sources:
>
> deb http://ftp.egr.msu.edu/debian stable main contrib non-free
> deb http://ftp.egr.msu.edu/debian unstable main contrib non-free
> deb http://ftp.egr.msu.edu/debian testing main contrib non-free
> deb http://ftp.egr.msu.edu/debian experimental main contrib non-free
>
> And when I update the apt lists, I get the following error:
>
> Reading Package Lists... Error!
> E: Dynamic MMap ran out of room
> E: Error occured while processing texmacs (NewVersion1)
> E: Problem with MergeList 
> /var/lib/apt/lists/ftp.egr.msu.edu_debian_dists_unstable_main_binary-i386_Packages
> E: The package lists or status file could not be parsed or opened.
>
> update available list script returned error exit status 1.
>
> I clean out /var/lib/apt/lists, but the error recurs.  This box is on a 
> 10Mbps hop to MSU, so I don't believe the file is being corrupted in the 
> stream.  Is anybody else having this type of problems with the unstable 
> tree at ftp.egr.msu.edu?
>
> Thanks,
> PaulM
>
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