I am trying this again with a decent subject line. Sorry about that. Phil
> > I am having troubles trying to upgrade to potato using > apt-get. I enter 'apt-get update' and get the following: > > Fetched 445kB in 2m16s (3269B/s) > Reading Package Lists... Error! > E: Dynamic MMap ran out of room > E: Dynamic MMap ran out of room > E: Error occured while processing lwm (NewVersion1) > E: Problem with MergeList > /var/state/apt/lists/http.us.debian.org_debian_dists_frozen_main_binary-i386_Packages > E: The package lists or status file could not be parsed or > opened. > > I have already done this several times before now and even > have a /var/cache/apt/packages full of 191 megabytes of > uninstalled packages. The 'apt-get dist-upgrade' earlier > gave up after not being able to download a package I never > requested. All attempts to force install the rest have been > unsuccessful. The packages that won't download are libpam > runtime and modules. So how do I force install the other > stuff? > > Phil B. > > > -- > Unsubscribe? mail -s unsubscribe [EMAIL PROTECTED] < /dev/null >