Issue updating to alpha6?

[Fintan]

I tried updating from alpha5 to alpha6 today.
doing:

~$ sudo apt-get update && sudo apt-get dist-upgrade

Gives me:
..........

Reading package lists... Done
Reading package lists... Error!
E: read, still have 2953834 to read but none left
E: The package lists or status file could not be parsed or opened.
fintan2@fintanws2:~$

Has anyone else seen this?

[Rog131]

Re: Issue updating to alpha6?

Interesting error

Maybe: https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+s...ic/+bug/253863

Please try increasing the cache-limit of apt by adding the following to /etc/apt/apt.conf.d/99local:

APT::Cache-Limit=25165824

If that succeeds please mark this as a duplicate of bug 24626.

that "24626" is https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/24626

The "dynamic mmap" error happens when there are too many repositories, or more
accurately, too many packages total over all repositories. I tried to have more
than one Ubuntu mirror in the list...
...
Michael Vogt wrote on 2006-04-07

You can use the "APT::Cache-Limit" option to increase the mmap cache limit that apt uses. It is currently set to "12*1024*1024" (12582912).

Try:
$ sudo apt-get update -o APT::Cache-Limit=25165824

Note
I don't have /etc/apt/apt.conf.d/99local but maybe making it will help or the setting of the "Cache-Limit".

man apt.conf tells:

Cache-Limit
APT uses a fixed size memory mapped cache file to store the ´available´ information. This sets the size of that cache
(in bytes).

[Fintan]

Re: Issue updating to alpha6?

Thank you rog.

On an off chance I disabled the backports and was able to finish upgrade

I don't know why it would be related but I guess it is.