[Pkg-ia32-libs-maintainers] Bug#535190: ia32-libs: Dynamic MMap ran out of room

[Sebastian Luque]

Package: ia32-libs
Version: 18
Severity: serious

Installing ia32-libs seems to have broken apt functionality in the
system reported here. 'apt-get update' checks for my sources as usual,
but after the "Reading package lists... Done" message, it displays large
number of lines starting with "arch_all.list: deleting SOME_PACKAGE" or
"arch_all.list: deleting SOME_PACKAGE", and finally ends with:

---<--------------------cut here---------------start------------------->---
Merging ...
Reading package lists... Error!
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 disc-cover (NewVersion1)
E: Problem with MergeList /var/lib/apt/lists/ftp.ca.debian.org_debian_dists_sid-i386_main_binary-amd64_Packages
E: The package lists or status file could not be parsed or opened.
---<--------------------cut here---------------end--------------------->---

The error remains, no matter how large I set the cache-limit in
/etc/apt/apt.conf.  I cannot even remove the package, as the same error
occurs immediately after 'apt-get remove ia32-libs'.

I can send additional information, if requested.  Thanks.

Seb




-- System Information:
Debian Release: squeeze/sid
Architecture: amd64 (x86_64)

Kernel: Linux 2.6.30-1-amd64 (SMP w/4 CPU cores)
Locale: LANG=en_CA.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=en_CA.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8)
Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/bash

Versions of packages ia32-libs depends on:
ii  ia32-apt-get                  18         Apt-get and dpkg wrapper for on-th

ia32-libs recommends no packages.

ia32-libs suggests no packages.

-- no debconf information



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Seb