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Martin Costabel wrote:
> Recently, apt-get started crashing on me with the following error message:
>
> E: Dynamic MMap ran out of room
> E: Error occured while processing system-pkgconfig-xcb-property (NewPackage)
> E: Problem with MergeList /tmp/finkaptstatus
>
> The incriminated package does not matter, during my tests it was not
> always the same, but the error came up persistently, whenever anything
> apt-get related was run, apt-get or apt-cache directly, or fink
> scanpackages or selfupdate etc.
>
> After some googling, it is clear that this is a real problem related to
> the increasing size of the package data bases and perhaps to the number
> of repositories mentioned in sources.list. On google I also found a
> workaround which might be interesting for others, as I am sure others
> will be hit by this, too:
>
> Create a file /sw/etc/apt/apt.conf.d/30cache containing one line
>
> APT::Cache-Limit "125829120";
>
> This sets the limit to 120MB instead of the ridiculously low default
> 6MB. Even 12MB would suffice.
>
> A permanent fix would involve a patch to the file apt-pkg/pkgcachegen.cc
> in the apt sources as follows:
>
> --- apt-0.5.4/apt-pkg/pkgcachegen.cc~ 2009-12-02 14:16:11.000000000 +0100
> +++ apt-0.5.4/apt-pkg/pkgcachegen.cc 2009-12-02 14:18:17.000000000 +0100
> @@ -599,3 +599,3 @@
> {
> - unsigned long MapSize = _config->FindI("APT::Cache-Limit",6*1024*1024);
> + unsigned long MapSize = _config->FindI("APT::Cache-Limit",60*1024*1024);
>
>
> There is another line in that file where MapSize is even lower at 4MB,
> but that does not seem to matter as much.
>
Ah. I got the same thing, myself. Fortunately in my case the offending
package was a buildlock, so I just deleted it.
- --
Alexander Hansen
Fink User Liaison
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