apt-get update returns error

Bug #149497 reported by Ameen
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Bug Description

Reading package lists... Error!
E: Dynamic MMap ran out of room
E: Error occurred while processing openoffice.org-draw (NewVersion1)
E: Problem with MergeList /var/lib/dpkg/status
E: The package lists or status file could not be parsed or opened.

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Ameen (ameen-mistral) wrote :

E: Dynamic MMap ran out of room
E: Error occurred while processing openoffice.org-draw (NewVersion1)
E: Problem with MergeList /var/lib/dpkg/status
E: The package lists or status file could not be parsed or opened.
E: _cache->open() failed, please report.

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Daniel Hahler (blueyed) wrote :

Please attach your /var/lib/dpkg/status file, but please zip it. Use the following command in a terminal to create the file dpkg-status.gz:
gzip -c /var/lib/dpkg/status > dpkg-status.gz

This appears to be required to reproduce/debug this.
I've set the package in the bug report to dpkg.

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Iulian Udrea (iulian) wrote :

We are closing this bug report because it lacks the information we need to investigate the problem. Please reopen it if you can give us the missing information. To reopen the bug report you can click on the current status, under the Status column, and change the Status back to "New".

Thank you.

Changed in apt:
status: Incomplete → Invalid
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secure bit (ahmad-hamad-777) wrote :

Errors were encountered while processing:
 python-launchpad-integration
 liblpint-bonobo0

E: /var/cache/apt/archives/liblaunchpad-integration1_0.1.18_i386.deb: trying to overwrite `/usr/share/icons/hicolor/16x16/apps/lpi-bug.png', which is also in package liblaunchpad-integration0

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secure bit (ahmad-hamad-777) wrote :

apt-get -f install
Reading package lists... Done
Building dependency tree
Reading state information... Done
Correcting dependencies... Done
The following packages were automatically installed and are no longer required:
  mozilla-firefox-locale-ar vnc4-common
Use 'apt-get autoremove' to remove them.
The following extra packages will be installed:
  liblaunchpad-integration1
The following NEW packages will be installed:
  liblaunchpad-integration1
0 upgraded, 1 newly installed, 0 to remove and 0 not upgraded.
2 not fully installed or removed.
Need to get 0B/17.7kB of archives.
After this operation, 172kB of additional disk space will be used.
Do you want to continue [Y/n]? y
(Reading database ... 193506 files and directories currently installed.)
Unpacking liblaunchpad-integration1 (from .../liblaunchpad-integration1_0.1.18_i386.deb) ...
dpkg: error processing /var/cache/apt/archives/liblaunchpad-integration1_0.1.18_i386.deb (--unpack):
 trying to overwrite `/usr/share/icons/hicolor/16x16/apps/lpi-bug.png', which is also in package liblaunchpad-integration0
Errors were encountered while processing:
 /var/cache/apt/archives/liblaunchpad-integration1_0.1.18_i386.deb
E: Sub-process /usr/bin/dpkg returned an error code (1)

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Daniel Hahler (blueyed) wrote :

secure bit, your problem is different from this bug report. If it is still an issue for you, please file a new bug for it.

I'm marking this as duplicate of bug 24626, which is about the "Dynamic MMap ran out of room" error.

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