[Bug 1016285] Re: trying to report a bug in Update Manager

[Marcel Stimberg]

I see, sorry for this red herring -- it seems you run into the same
problem as before when using apport to gather the information.

It seems the issue is about the so called cache not being big enough to
hold all the package information. Possibly you have a lot of package
sources activated (you can change this in the Software Center --> go to
Software Sources and uncheck unneeded sources)? Either way, you can try
to increase the cache size manually. To do this, after having closed any
open update-manager or similar, open a terminal as described above and
then type:

gksudo gedit /etc/apt/apt.conf

This should (after possibly asking for your password) open a text editor. In this text editor, paste the following line:
APT::Cache-Limit 100000000;

(This increases the cache from the current value of ~25MB to ~100MB --
you can also use even higher values but it should be considerable
smaller than the total amount of memory you have, otherwise it slows
down your system a lot).

Save the file and exit the editor. Then try updating the package information again, either by clicking the "check" button in the update-manager, or by typing the following in the terminal:
sudo apt-get update

This might solve your issue.
In case it does *not*, please follow the (admittedly quite long...) instructions at the following Ubuntu help page:
https://help.ubuntu.com/community/PackageManagerTroubleshootingProcedure

Follow steps 1 to 5 but instead of opening a new question (as instructed
in step 6), paste all the output from the terminal window here into the
bug report.

Good luck :) !
 
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** Package changed: update-manager (Ubuntu) => apt (Ubuntu)

** Summary changed:

- trying to report a bug in Update Manager
+ E:Dynamic MMap ran out of room

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Title:
  E:Dynamic MMap ran out of room

Status in “apt” package in Ubuntu:
  Incomplete

Bug description:
  (I don't speak computer techno-speak, so please explain as you would
  to your grandmother.  Thanks!)

  This message pops up whenever I try to run Update Manager:

  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 linux-image-2.6.32-36-virtual (NewVersion1),
  E:Problem with MergeList /var/lib/apt/lists/archive.ubuntu
  .com_ubuntu_dists_lucid-updates_main_binary-i386_Packages, E:The
  package lists or status file could not be parsed or opened.'

  I am using Ubuntu 10.04 LTS-- Lucid Lynx.  I have tried to upgrade to
  10.10, but haven't gotten anywhere.  Do I need to upgrade or should I
  stick with 10.4?

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