Debian Package List Update Problem

[quickbasicguru]

Well, this is the error message when I do apt-get update as root:

Reading Package Lists... Error!

E: Dynamic MMap ran out of room

E: Error occured while processing zope-epoz (NewVersion1)

E: Problem with MergeList /var/lib/apt/lists/ftp.de.debian.org_debian_dists_.._project_experimental_main_binary-i386_Packages

E: The package lists or status file could not be parsed or opened.

RESULT=100

Can anyone help?

[Hai-Etlik]

http://rwxii.bitblaster.com/k/11-1-1-03121...9/permlink.hptb

Takes a bit of practice to learn which parts of error messages to use, but simply dumping them into Google often produces good results. In this case I got it on my first try with just "Dynamic MMap ran out of room"

[quickbasicguru]

Thanks, that seems to have done it (now I can see not yet installed packages in KPackage at least...)

[quickbasicguru]

Hm, now I am getting something strange:

Failed to fetch http://ftp.de.debian.org/pub/debian-non-US...386/Packages.gz 404 Not Found

Failed to fetch http://ftp.de.debian.org/pub/debian-non-US...386/Packages.gz 404 Not Found

Failed to fetch http://ftp.de.debian.org/pub/debian-non-US...386/Packages.gz 404 Not Found

Failed to fetch http://ftp.de.debian.org/pub/debian-non-US...urce/Sources.gz 404 Not Found

Failed to fetch http://ftp.de.debian.org/pub/debian-non-US...urce/Sources.gz 404 Not Found

Failed to fetch http://ftp.de.debian.org/pub/debian-non-US...urce/Sources.gz 404 Not Found

Failed to fetch http://ftp.de.debian.org/debian-non-US/dis...386/Packages.gz 404 Not Found

Failed to fetch http://ftp.de.debian.org/debian-non-US/dis...386/Packages.gz 404 Not Found

Failed to fetch http://ftp.de.debian.org/debian-non-US/dis...386/Packages.gz 404 Not Found

Failed to fetch http://ftp.de.debian.org/debian-non-US/dis...urce/Sources.gz 404 Not Found

Failed to fetch http://ftp.de.debian.org/debian-non-US/dis...urce/Sources.gz 404 Not Found

Failed to fetch http://ftp.de.debian.org/debian-non-US/dis...urce/Sources.gz 404 Not Found

And it is not getting the updates because of that...

[Hai-Etlik]

Have you been making any changes to your repository list?

[quickbasicguru]

No...

Here it is:

# /etc/apt/sources.list for Knoppix

# If you want to do a "full upgrade", you should first

# upgrade the Packages from Debian/unstable (KDE & Co.)

# before doing a (dist-)upgrade for Debian/testing.

#

# See sources.list(5) for more information, especialy

# Remember that you can only use http, ftp or file URIs

# CDROMs are managed through the apt-cdrom tool.

# Security updates for "stable"

deb http://security.debian.org stable/updates main contrib non-free

deb http://security.debian.org testing/updates main contrib non-free

# Stable

deb http://ftp.de.debian.org/pub/debian stable main contrib non-free

deb http://ftp.de.debian.org/pub/debian-non-US stable/non-US main contrib non-free

# Stable Sources

deb-src http://ftp.de.debian.org/pub/debian stable main contrib non-free

deb-src http://ftp.de.debian.org/pub/debian-non-US stable/non-US main contrib non-free

# Testing

deb http://ftp.de.debian.org/pub/debian testing main contrib non-free

deb http://ftp.de.debian.org/pub/debian-non-US testing/non-US main contrib non-free

# Testing Sources

deb-src http://ftp.de.debian.org/pub/debian testing main contrib non-free

deb-src http://ftp.de.debian.org/pub/debian-non-US testing/non-US main contrib non-free

# Unstable

deb http://ftp.de.debian.org/debian unstable main contrib non-free

deb http://ftp.de.debian.org/debian-non-US unstable/non-US main contrib non-free

# Unstable Sources

deb-src http://ftp.de.debian.org/debian unstable main contrib non-free

deb-src http://ftp.de.debian.org/debian-non-US unstable/non-US main contrib non-free

# Experimental

deb http://ftp.de.debian.org/debian ../project/experimental main contrib non-free

# Experimental Sources

deb-src http://ftp.de.debian.org/debian ../project/experimental main contrib non-free

# Java

deb ftp://ftp.gwdg.de/pub/languages/java/linux/debian woody main non-free

deb-src ftp://ftp.gwdg.de/pub/languages/java/linux/debian woody main non-free

deb ftp://ftp.gwdg.de/pub/languages/java/linux/debian unstable main non-free

deb-src ftp://ftp.gwdg.de/pub/languages/java/linux/debian unstable main non-free

# More wireless stuff

# deb http://debian.isg.ee.ethz.ch/public woody madwifi

# deb-src http://debian.isg.ee.ethz.ch/public woody madwifi

# deb http://debian.isg.ee.ethz.ch/public woody airo-mpi

# deb-src http://debian.isg.ee.ethz.ch/public woody airo-mpi

# deb ftp://ftp.tcweb.org/pub/debian unstable main

# deb-src ftp://ftp.tcweb.org/pub/debian unstable main

# NX stuff

# deb http://www.kalyxo.org/debian/ experimental main

# ndiswrapper

# deb http://rigtorp.se/debian unstable/

# deb-src http://rigtorp.se/debian unstable/

# Blades Repository (pppoeconf & co)

# deb http://people.debian.org/~blade/testing ./

# deb-src http://people.debian.org/~blade/testing ./

# deb cdrom:[Debian GNU/Linux 2.2 r3 _Potato_ - Official i386 Binary-1 (20010427)]/ unstable contrib main non-US/contrib non-US/main

# Knoppix special packages resource at LinuxTag HQ

# deb http://developer.linuxtag.net/knoppix ./

# deb-src http://developer.linuxtag.net/knoppix ./

# deb http://snapshot.debian.net/archive pool gcc

# deb-src http://snapshot.debian.net/archive pool gcc

deb ftp://ftp.nerim.net/debian-marillat/ etch main

The last line is the only thing I added, and it worked after that (and that was several weeks ago...)

[Hai-Etlik]

Could just be problems on the server. It is "unstable" after all. Try waiting it out.

I can't say your use of the unstable and experimental repositories strikes me as a good idea. It's usualy best to stick to testing.