Ubuntu
update-manager package

unresolvable problem occurred while initializing the package information

Asked by Laodan

Binary package hint: update-manager

in 10.04 Lucid while updating:
'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 smuxi-engine-irc (NewFileVer1), E:Problem with MergeList /var/lib/apt/lists/mirror.cc.columbia.edu_pub_linux_ubuntu_archive_dists_lucid_universe_binary-i386_Packages, E:The package lists or status file could not be parsed or opened.'

Question information

Language:
English Edit question
Status:
Solved
For:
Ubuntu update-manager Edit question
Assignee:
No assignee Edit question
Solved by:
marcobra (Marco Braida)
Solved:
Last query:
Last reply:

This question was originally filed as bug #592633.

Revision history for this message
Jean-Baptiste Lallement (jibel) said : 		#1

Thanks for your report.

This error occurs when there are too many entries in your sources.list files. This is not a bug and I'm converting it to a question.

Revision history for this message
Jean-Baptiste Lallement (jibel) said : 		#2

Thank you for taking the time to report this issue and helping to make Ubuntu better. Examining the information you have given us, this does not appear to be a bug report so we are closing it and converting it to a question in the support tracker. We appreciate the difficulties you are facing, but it would make more sense to raise problems you are having in the support tracker at https://answers.launchpad.net/ubuntu if you are uncertain if they are bugs. For help on reporting bugs, see https://help.ubuntu.com/community/ReportingBugs#When%20not%20to%20file%20a%20bug.

Revision history for this message
Best marcobra (Marco Braida) (marcobra) said : 		#3

Update manager error:

"E: Dynamic MMap ran out of room"

Please open a terminal from Applications→Accessories→Terminal and copy and paste from here the row below:

sudo apt-get update -o APT::Cache-Limit=30123456;

Then if you want made this apt environment change to be permanent:

Put the following line into your /etc/apt/apt.conf (i suggest to put at top of file) :

APT::Cache-Limit "30123456";

If you still get the same error, increase the value.

Alternatively, delete or better rem the entries within /etc/apt/sources.list that you don't actually need.

So to add the line please open a terminal and type:

gksudo gedit /etc/apt/sources.list

and add this row:

APT::Cache-Limit "30123456";
save and exit then still using terminal type (copy and paste one row a time then press enter):

sudo dpkg --configure -a
sudo apt-get -f install
sudo apt-get --fix-missing install
sudo apt-get update; sudo apt-get update
sudo apt-get dist-upgrade
sudo apt-get clean
sudo apt-get autoremove
sudo apt-get update

Hope this helps

Revision history for this message
Laodan (laodan) said : 		#4

Hi Marco,

Thanks so much for this answer.
I had initially solved my problem by re-installing 10.04.
I nevertheless applied your advise after receiving your message and everything runs simply fine on my installation.

Again thanks a lot.

Laodan