update-manager

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Binary package hint: update-manager

'E:Dynamic MMap ran out of room, E:Erreur apparue lors du traitement de libresid-builder0c2a (NewVersion1), E:Problem with MergeList /var/lib/apt/lists/fr.archive.ubuntu.com_ubuntu_dists_hardy_universe_binary-i386_Packages, E:Les listes de paquets ou le fichier « status » ne peuvent être analysés ou lus.'

[Daniel Hahler (blueyed)]

Thank you for your bug report.

I'm marking it as duplicate of bug 24626.

[C de-Avillez (hggdh2)]

Just a comment, Daniel: this *only* happens while under the French locale. If I run under the en_US.UTF8 locale (via 'env LC_ALL=en_US.UTF8 whatever), then there is no problem.

In fact, for some few weeks I did that; eventually I got fed up, and switched to en_US completely. And... I no more have this error. So, I am not quite sure this is the same issue.

To wit:

(1) Under the Frencg locale:

hggdh@xango2:/usr/src/buildd/evolution/evo-2.24-svn $ env LC_ALL=fr_FR.UTF8 sudo apt-get update
Atteint http://download.virtualbox.org intrepid Release.gpg
Ign http://download.virtualbox.org intrepid/non-free Translation-fr
(...)
Atteint http://packages.medibuntu.org intrepid/non-free Packages
3o réceptionnés en 4s (1o/s)
Lecture des listes de paquets... Erreur !
E: Vous avez dépassé le nombre de descriptions que cette version d'APT est capable de traiter.
E: Problem with MergeList /var/lib/apt/lists/archive.ubuntu.com_ubuntu_dists_intrepid-updates_main_i18n_Translation-fr
E: Les listes de paquets ou le fichier « status » ne peuvent être analysés ou lus.
hggdh@xango2:/usr/src/buildd/evolution/evo-2.24-svn $

(2) Under the English (US) locale:

hggdh@xango2:/usr/src/buildd/evolution/evo-2.24-svn $ sudo apt-get update
Hit http://download.virtualbox.org intrepid Release.gpg
Ign http://download.virtualbox.org intrepid/non-free Translation-en_US
(...)
Hit http://packages.medibuntu.org intrepid/non-free Packages
Fetched 3B in 6s (0B/s)
Reading package lists... Done
hggdh@xango2:/usr/src/buildd/evolution/evo-2.24-svn $

(3) And, about the number of repositories on each locale:

hggdh@xango2:~ $ sudo apt-get update > en_apt.txt
hggdh@xango2:~ $ env LC_ALL=fr_FR.UTF8 sudo apt-get update > fr_apt.txt
E: Vous avez dépassé le nombre de descriptions que cette version d'APT est capable de traiter.
E: Problem with MergeList /var/lib/apt/lists/archive.ubuntu.com_ubuntu_dists_intrepid-updates_main_i18n_Translation-fr
E: Les listes de paquets ou le fichier « status » ne peuvent être analysés ou lus.
hggdh@xango2:~ $ wc -l *apt.txt
  139 en_apt.txt
  139 fr_apt.txt
  278 total
hggdh@xango2:~ $