RE: apt-get errors with jffs2.

> I attempted an install of intimate on a 340Mb udrive using the new blkmtd
>driver. I used the .tgz version of the installation, and most things are
>working fine, but there is problem with apt-get, I keep getting messages
>like:
>
>mhipaq:~# apt-get install task-kde
>Reading Package Lists... Error!
>E: Couldn't make mmap of 6291457 bytes - mmap (22 Invalid argument)
>W: Unable to munmap
>E: The package lists or status file could not be parsed or opened.

OK... we've got to the bottom of this.

The problem is that jffs2 does not support shared writeable mmap, which is
exactly what apt-get uses. It's not a memory issue. This'll fail even if you
try to mmap 4097bytes. JFFS2 doesn't support shared-writeable.

I guess that this needs to be raised as a problem with apt-get, as this
functionality isn't going to be added to jffs2 (for good reasons).

Jim
Received on Mon Jul 2 07:48:55 2001