not able to upgrade ubuntu. A message occurs as follows: E:Dynamic MMap ran out of room. Please increase the size of APT::Cache-Limit. Current value: 25165824. (man 5 apt.conf), E:Error occurred while processing r-base-dev (NewVersion1), E:Problem with MergeList /var/lib/apt/lists/archive.ubuntu.com_ubuntu_dists_lucid_universe_binary-i386_Packages, E:The package lists or status file could not be parsed or opened.'
Bug #1230156 reported by
Pranav Kewlani
This bug report is a duplicate of:
Bug #885930: Could not initialize the package information An unresolvable problem occurred while initializing 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. Please increase the size of APT::Cache-Limit. Current value: 25165824. (man 5 apt.conf), E:Error occurred while processing kwrite (NewVersion1), E:Problem with MergeList /var/lib/apt/lists/archive.ubuntu.com_ubuntu_dists_lucid-updates_main_binary-amd64_Packages, E:The package lists or status file could not be parsed or opened.'.
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| Affects | Status | Importance | Assigned to | Milestone | |
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Bug Description
error shown is:
An unresolvable problem occurred while initializing 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. Please increase the size of APT::Cache-Limit. Current value: 25165824. (man 5 apt.conf), E:Error occurred while processing r-base-dev (NewVersion1), E:Problem with MergeList /var/lib/
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| Doug Smythies (dsmythies) wrote | #1 |
| affects: | ubuntu-docs (Ubuntu) → update-manager (Ubuntu) |
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This isn't an ubuntu-docs issue. The instructions seem to have suggested that this bug should have been filed against "update-manager", so I'll change it.