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Gusty upgrade halts all upgrades and doesn't work.

Asked by merrill

After an unsuccessful attempt to install Gutsy, I find that my update manager doesn't work. I get the following message:

Could not initialize the package information

A unresolvable problem occurred while initializing the package information.

Please report this bug against the 'update-manager' package and include the following error message:

'E:Dynamic MMap ran out of room, E:Dynamic MMap ran out of room, E:Error occurred while processing wu-ftpd (NewVersion1), E:Problem with MergeList /var/lib/apt/lists/archive.ubuntu.com_ubuntu_dists_feisty_universe_binary-i386_Packages, E:The package lists or status file could not be parsed or opened.'

I have no idea how to report a bug or what else to do,

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marcobra (Marco Braida) (marcobra) said : 		#1

This may help you:http://valery.bgit.net/blog-en/2006/11/13/apt-get-e-dynamic-mmap-ran-out-of-room/

in short:

Please open a Terminal from the menu Applications->Accessories->Terminal and type:

sudo gedit /etc/apt/apt.conf

give your user password when requested, you don't see nothing when you type it, then press enter.

and add this row:
APT::Cache-Limit "20000000";

Save and exit, then type

sudo apt-get clean
sudo apt-get update
sudo apt-get upgrade

Hope this help

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Pedro Fragoso (ember) said : 		#2

Also check your apt.conf for equal lines of Gutsy.

Many people reported that when two lines are duplicated in the apt.conf this causes some kind of memory overflow just like that problem.

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Pedro Fragoso (ember) said : 		#3

Sorry for typo, not apt.conf but sources.list.

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merrill (m-cole) said : 		#4

I have tried the techniques suggested, and the same problem persists.

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marcobra (Marco Braida) (marcobra) said : 		#5

Have you already send a bug about this...?

... look at your startup question:

Please report this bug against the 'update-manager' package and include the following error message:

'E:Dynamic MMap ran out of room, E:Dynamic MMap ran out of room, E:Error occurred while processing wu-ftpd (NewVersion1), E:Problem with MergeList /var/lib/apt/lists/archive.ubuntu.com_ubuntu_dists_feisty_universe_binary-i386_Packages, E:The package lists or status file could not be parsed or opened.'

Please report the bug from here... https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+filebug

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