see below. On Thu, Mar 15, 2012 at 08:33, Kjetil brinchmann Halvorsen < kjetil1...@gmail.com> wrote:
> see below! > > On Fri, Mar 9, 2012 at 09:33, Chris Davies <chris-use...@roaima.co.uk>wrote: > >> Kjetil brinchmann Halvorsen <kjetil1...@gmail.com> wrote: >> > This is debian testing, with recent updates. >> >> > When starting synaptic, it explodes, with the following message: >> >> > "E: Unable to increase the size of the MMap as the limit of 8388608 >> bytes >> > is already reached. >> > E: Dynamic MMap ran out of room. Please increase the size of >> > APT::Cache-Limit. Current value: 25165824. (man 5 apt.conf) >> >> This suggests you may have added a number of repositories over and above >> the standard set. You can either reduce the number, or do what it suggests >> and increase the mmap size. Paste the following five lines into a >> terminal, as root: >> >> cat >/etc/apt/apt.conf.d/80cache-limit <<! >> # Increase the cache limit from 8388608 bytes >> # >> APT::Cache-Limit "10000000"; >> ! >> >> I did this, pasted the above into a root terminal, but it does not help. > Exact same error as before reported. > > Kjetil > > >> Then run these two commands (also as root) and you should be able to >> use synaptic again: >> >> apt-get clean >> apt-get update >> >> Chris >> >> >> -- >> To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org >> with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact >> listmas...@lists.debian.org >> Archive: http://lists.debian.org/kfkp29xsmf....@news.roaima.co.uk >> >> > > > -- > "If you want a picture of the future - imagine a boot stamping on the > human face - forever." > > George Orwell (1984) > > > > For the record: Problem solved by changing Cache-Limit in /etc/apt/apt.conf to 0 (zero), which means no limit. Kjetil -- "If you want a picture of the future - imagine a boot stamping on the human face - forever." George Orwell (1984)
