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could not initialize package information - Dynamic Mmap run out of room after update 7.10 to 8.04

Asked by Otonte

Hello there, everyone ! :-)

When starting the Update Manager of Ubuntu 8.04

I face the unavoidable:

<< Could not initialise the package information
An unresolvable problem occurred while initialising the package information.
Please report this bug against the 'update-manager' package and include the following error message:

'E:Dynamic MMap ran out of room,
E:Error occurred while processing gnome-panel (NewVersion1),
E:Problem with MergeList /var/lib/dpkg/status,
E:The package lists or status file could not be parsed or opened.' >>

If some one has some suggestion for the 8.04 version...
(I know some answers have been provided on Mmap issues as a consequence of an update to 7.10, do these apply to updates towards 8.04 as well?)

thanks you!

Otente

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Otonte (oegenia-sterogen) said : 		#1

Following Cesar's recommendations to Sandros,

I edited the APT line in the apt file to the suggestred level and now face:

<<An unresolvable problem occurred while initialising the package information.
Please report this bug against the 'update-manager' package and include the following error message:
'E:Dynamic MMap ran out of room,
E:Read error - read (14 Bad address),
E:The package lists or status file could not be parsed or opened.'>>

so got rid of one line ;-)) !!!

I will try to increase the cach a bit more and see how it goes.

Any suggestion extremely welcomed !!

Otente.

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Otonte (oegenia-sterogen) said : 		#2

follow up:

I could actually not create the apt.conf as even as a root,
I was not allowed to create a file within apt.

I have been searching on the Web for a complete command line glossary,
but I found it quite hard to even find the mere command for creating a file within a folder from the terminal window.

Yes: I AM a newbee ;D

Please people, can anyone leave me a command as to where I should start?
How can I learn the beautiful Ubuntu misteries if even my Package downloader is on the bench... ?

Thank you.

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zerio511 (poltergeist-94) said : 		#3

I had a similar program but on 7.10 & it appears when I go to System/Admin/Update Manager, "
A unresolvable problem occurred while initializing the package information.

Please report this bug against the 'update-manager' package and include the following error message:

'E:Type 'mypassword' is not known on line 61 in source list /etc/apt/sources.list, E:The list of sources could not be read.'
Plz help

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Launchpad Janitor (janitor) said : 		#4

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