Upgrading Debian

Chris Bier chris.bier at cymor.com
Fri Sep 20 21:21:53 CDT 2002


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Jose,
  It sounds like you've run out of hard drive space and/or virtual
memory.

 Chris

On Fri, 2002-09-20 at 12:23, jose sanchez wrote:
> Hello:
> 
> For those who use debian, please help.
> 
> I have an old box (P75, 8M RAM) at home that the only
> distro I can install is Debian 2.1. I installed the
> base system and I'm trying to get it up to date. When
> I try running:
> apt-get -u update command I get the following error:
> 
> Reading Package Lists... Error!
>  E: Dynamic MMap ran out of room
>  E: Error occured while processing emusic
> (NewVersion1)
>  E: Problem with MergeList /var/lib/dpkg/status
>  E: msync 
>  E: The package lists or status file could not be
> parsed or opened.
> 
> What causes this?
> I can't get it updated. 
> Any suggestions?
> 
> Thanks in advance for your help.
> 
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