Unable to Upgrade.

[kadak.chocho]

Please pardon me for i am a noob and new to ubuntu - but willing to learn. I have been unable to upgrade for a few days now. When i start the upgrade manager or the synaptic i get the following message. i am using the ubuntu 10.04 with windows vistadual boot.

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:

'W: duplicate sources.list entry http://archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/ dapper/main Packages (/var/lib/apt/lists/archive.ubuntu.com_ubuntu_dists_dapper_main_binary-i386_Packages), W: duplicate sources.list entry http://archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/ dapper/restricted Packages (/var/lib/apt/lists/archive.ubuntu.com_ubuntu_dists_dapper_restricted_ binary-i386_Packages), W: duplicate sources.list entry http://archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/ dapper/universe Packages (/var/lib/apt/lists/archive.ubuntu.com_ubuntu_dists_dapper_universe_bi nary-i386_Packages), W: duplicate sources.list entry http://archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/ dapper/multiverse Packages (/var/lib/apt/lists/archive.ubuntu.com_ubuntu_dists_dapper_multiverse_ binary-i386_Packages), W: duplicate sources.list entry http://archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/ dapper-updates/main Packages (/var/lib/apt/lists/archive.ubuntu.com_ubuntu_dists_dapper-updates_main_binary-i386_Packages), W: duplicate sources.list entry http://archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/ dapper-updates/restricted Packages (/var/lib/apt/lists/archive.ubuntu.com_ubuntu_dists_dapper-updates_restricted_binary-i386_Packages), W: duplicate sources.list entry http://archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/ dapper-updates/universe Packages (/var/lib/apt/lists/archive.ubuntu.com_ubuntu_dists_dapper-updates_universe_binary-i386_Packages), W: duplicate sources.list entry http://archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/ dapper-updates/multiverse Packages (/var/lib/apt/lists/archive.ubuntu.com_ubuntu_dists_dapper-updates_multiverse_binary-i386_Packages), W: duplicate sources.list entry http://security.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/ dapper-security/main Packages (/var/lib/apt/lists/security.ubuntu.com_ubuntu_dists_dapper-security_main_binary-i386_Packages), W: duplicate sources.list entry http://security.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/ dapper-security/restricted Packages (/var/lib/apt/lists/security.ubuntu.com_ubuntu_dists_dapper-security_restricted_binary-i386_Packages), W: duplicate sources.list entry http://security.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/ dapper-security/universe Packages (/var/lib/apt/lists/security.ubuntu.com_ubuntu_dists_dapper-security_universe_binary-i386_Packages), W: duplicate sources.list entry http://security.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/ dapper-security/multiverse Packages (/var/lib/apt/lists/security.ubuntu.com_ubuntu_dists_dapper-security_multiverse_binary-i386_Packages), W: duplicate sources.list entry http://archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/ dapper-backports/main Packages (/var/lib/apt/lists/archive.ubuntu.com_ubuntu_dists_dapper-backports_main_binary-i386_Packages), W:duplicate sources.list entry http://archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/ dapper-backports/restricted Packages (/var/lib/apt/lists/archive.ubuntu.com_ubuntu_dists_dapper-backports_restricted_binary-i386_Packages), W: duplicate sources.list entry http://archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/ dapper-backports/universe Packages (/var/lib/apt/lists/archive.ubuntu.com_ubuntu_dists_dapper-backports_universe_binary-i386_Packages), W: duplicate sources.list entry http://archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/ dapper-backports/multiverse Packages (/var/lib/apt/lists/archive.ubuntu.com_ubuntu_dists_dapper-backports_multiverse_binary-i386_Packages), 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 wine (NewVersion1), E: problem with MergeList /var/lib/apt/lists/wine.budgetdedicated.com_apt_dists_intrepid_main_b inary-i386_Packages, E:The package lists or status file could not be parsed or opened.'

[Dutch70]

Is this a Wubi install? If not, you may want to clean your system and delete your cache. If you don't know how, Ubuntu Tweak or Bleachbit is a good program to do it for you.

Also, please run the following command & post your sources.list from gedit between
and[ /CODE] tags, by clicking the "#" symbol in the toolbar.
[CODE]gksudo gedit /etc/apt/sources.list

Give this a read while your waiting for responses.
http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=1580857 (http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=1580857)

[mörgæs]

What? It reads 'dapper'. I don't remember when I have seen one of these latest.

Dapper Drake is Ubuntu 6.06. If you originally installed this one, you should reinstall a new Ubuntu from scratch. Such a long path of upgrades is not healthy.

[kadak.chocho]

Ok .... i am done cleaning the duplicate sources and removing the old ones.

NOw i need only to solve this

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 kscreensaver-xsavers (NewVersion1), E: Problem with MergeList /var/lib/apt/lists/archive.ubuntu.com_ubuntu_dists_lucid-updates_universe_binary-i386_Packages, E: The package lists or status file could not be parsed or opened.

Thank you for your invaluable help

[ecofinn]

I just had the same or a very similar problem.

apt-get update gave me:



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 gufw (NewFileVer1)
E: Problem with MergeList /var/lib/dpkg/status
W: Unable to munmap
E: The package lists or status file could not be parsed or opened.
I edited /etc/apt/apt.conf.d/70debconf

and added

APT::Cache-Limit "50331648"; to the end, so the file now reads:


// Pre-configure all packages with debconf before they are installed.
// If you don't like it, comment it out.
DPkg::Pre-Install-Pkgs {"/usr/sbin/dpkg-preconfigure --apt || true";};

APT::Cache-Limit "50331648";apt-get update is happy again now!

[mörgæs]

It seems like the cache was running full. Rather than increase the limit you could try


sudo apt-get clean