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.'

[pardos ronnel]

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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.'

[Marc Deslauriers (mdeslaur)]

Thanks for taking the time to report this bug and helping to make Ubuntu better. We appreciate the difficulties you are facing, but this appears to be a "regular" (non-security) bug. I have unmarked it as a security issue since this bug does not show evidence of allowing attackers to cross privilege boundaries nor directly cause loss of data/privacy. Please feel free to report any other bugs you may find.

[Roger Clark (rfclark)]

I had the same problem after a failed upgrade attempt to 12.04.1 due to connectivity issues not reaching the ubuntu.com servers on all requests. I attempted to do a $sudo apt-config -o APT::Cache-Limit="50000000"; to no error or no avail. finally decided to do a $sudo rm archive.ubuntu.com_ubuntu_dists_lucid_universe_binary-amd64_Packages from /var/lib/apt/lists as this file size was over the cache limit. POOF, and it was gone. Update Manager would now run, we'll see if I can get a successful upgrade now.

[Launchpad Janitor (janitor)]

Status changed to 'Confirmed' because the bug affects multiple users.