Knoppix Problem #2

**papanohair** · 01-30-2003, 05:16 AM

Have Knoppix installed on HD but when I type "apt-get update" I get the following error messages:

"Failed to open file"

"Dynamic MMap ran out of room"

"Error occurred while processing argouml"

"Problem with MergeList"

"Could not be parsed or opened"

Any suggestions? Thanks!

**kornp** · 01-30-2003, 08:37 AM

I had the same thing occur, found it was one of the mirrors in my sources.list file that was messing things up. So I got the default mirrors, installed apt-spy and then went from there.

**papanohair** · 01-30-2003, 01:33 PM

[quote author=PK link=board=7;threadid=6226;start=0#58908 date=1043915839]
I had the same thing occur, found it was one of the mirrors in my sources.list file that was messing things up. So I got the default mirrors, installed apt-spy and then went from there.
[/quote]
What is apt-spy?

**demian** · 01-30-2003, 03:32 PM

[quote author=PapaNoHair link=board=7;threadid=6226;start=0#58912 date=1043933617]
What is apt-spy?
[/quote]
It's a pretty neat tool for debian: It take a number of mirrors and the branch (stable|testing|unstable) as arguments and then measures the download speed you get from each mirror in turn. It then writes you a sources.list file with the hosts that give you best speeds.

You might want to call it with -l some.file so that it doesn't overwrite your /etc/apt/sources.list. And also you maybe don't want to use the entire mirror list from debian.org as input because that'll keep you waiting for quite some time.

**kornp** · 01-30-2003, 09:53 PM

If you comment out (or rename) your sources.list file and put in

Code:

deb ftp://ftp.egr.msu.edu/debian/ stable contrib main non-free
deb ftp://ftp.egr.msu.edu/debian/ testing contrib main non-free
deb ftp://ftp.egr.msu.edu/debian/ unstable contrib main

It should at least get you going for now. Note: unstable non-free was giving me troubles so it's not included, you can add it if you want but it may not work for you either.