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Dynamic MMap ran out room, needs to be increased in size

Asked by Ken Johnson

I cannot install or remove programs/packages from my computer because synaptic programs have bugs in them.

An unresolvable problem occurred while initializingthe package informati

E Error opening cache

(e:Dynamic MMap ran out of room. Please increase the size of APT::Cache-Limit. Current value: 25165824. (man 5 apt.conf)
E.Error occurred while processing tryton-modules-country (NewVersion1)
E:Problems with MergeList /var/lib/apt/lists/

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Eliah Kagan (degeneracypressure) said : 		#1

If no one objects, I'm going to remove the link to bug 141619, which appears entirely unrelated to this question and is a duplicate of bug 140866, which was fixed over three years ago.

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Ken Johnson (pebmich-comcast) said : 		#2

Could not initialize the package information

An 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. Please increase the size of APT::Cache-Limit. Current value: 25165824. (man 5 apt.conf), E:Error occurred while processing transmission-daemon (NewVersion1), E:Problem with MergeList /var/lib/apt/lists/archive.ubuntu.com_ubuntu_dists_maverick_universe_binary-i386_Packages, E:The package lists or status file could not be parsed or opened.'

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Ken Johnson (pebmich-comcast) said : 		#3

As things stand now, it is impossible to add-subtract, or remove-install software on this computer. Common sense comments on this problem would greatly be appreciated

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Eliah Kagan (degeneracypressure) said : 		#4

So the Synaptic Package Manager is not working for you. Can you install and remove programs in the Software Center (Applications > Ubuntu Software Center)?

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Ken Johnson (pebmich-comcast) said : 		#5

no, all synaptic programs or packages have the same problem. apt-get clean, apt-get update have this same problem.

As things stand now, it is not possible to add or subtract any programs to the system.

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Best Eliah Kagan (degeneracypressure) said : 		#6

Open a Terminal window and run these two commands:

sudo dpkg --configure -a
sudo apt-get install -f

It's likely that this will fix your problem. If not, please run these additional two commands (or, if you like, you can just run them immediately, to see if it fixed your problem):

sudo apt-get update
sudo apt-get upgrade

If your problem is not solved, please paste all the text from the Terminal here. It should provide useful diagnostic information for figuring out what's wrong.

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Ken Johnson (pebmich-comcast) said : 		#7

Problem solved, and thanks.

Used following coding: sudo apt-get update -o APT::Cache-Limit=55000000000

Thanks everybody for your help

ken