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Synaptic crashes on opening

Bug #113151 reported by Northy
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Michael Vogt

Bug Description

Binary package hint: synaptic

I recently upgraded to feisty, and upon trying to run Add/remove Programs, Synaptic Package Manager Or the update manager (which I believe is another synaptic app) I get this Problem code

[CODE]
E: Dynamic MMap ran out of room
E: Error occurred while processing kdebase-dev (NewVersion1)
E: Problem with MergeList /var/lib/apt/lists/archive.ubuntu.com_ubuntu_dists_feisty-proposed_main_binary-amd64_Packages
E: The package lists or status file could not be parsed or opened.
E: _cache->open() failed, please report.

W: Duplicate sources.list entry http://security.ubuntu.com edgy-security/universe Packages (/var/lib/apt/lists/security.ubuntu.com_ubuntu_dists_edgy-security_universe_binary-amd64_Packages)[/CODE]

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Northy (northyj0e) wrote :
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Northy (northyj0e) wrote :
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Northy (northyj0e) wrote :
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Pavel Rojtberg (rojtberg) wrote :

this is actually an apt-get bug, which happens when you have too many sources in your sources.list.
as a workaround you can run "sudo gedit /etc/apt/sources.list" and uncomment the unneeded sources.

Changed in synaptic:
assignee: nobody → mvo
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Karl Hegbloom (karl.hegbloom) wrote : Re: [Bug 113151] Re: Synaptic crashes on opening

On Mon, 2007-05-14 at 12:50 +0000, Pavel Rojtberg wrote:
> *** This bug is a duplicate of bug 24626 ***
> https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/24626
>
> this is actually an apt-get bug, which happens when you have too many sources in your sources.list.
> as a workaround you can run "sudo gedit /etc/apt/sources.list" and uncomment the unneeded sources.

It is possible to increase the size of the dynamic mmap area with:

  APT::Cache-Limit 33554432;

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