My dear friend,

any change as suggested above makes no improvement.
Increasing cache size crashes N770 and makes it to run very very very slow.
Sorry, but your solution didn't work.

Darius

I guess thers's something wrong with your source.list file,but I cannot find the bad link in the list you posted above,

To increase the cache limit_size can solve some problem when you use "apt-get install" some packages,because it will download many packages into /var/cache.

so i have no idea about your odd problem.Maybe there's some network problem.

Thanks.
Some entries from /var/lib/dpkg/status file

status file is 538 KB in size.

Mayby I should try to cut some packages from this file to make Application manager finally running ?
I don't know by what rule a new package info is appended.
is it a high risk operation to cut some entries, I am aware of, i.e.
to cut some packages I have personally installed ?

Darius



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Package: ezitext-french-fr
Status: install ok installed
Priority: optional
Section: x11
Installed-Size: 96
Maintainer: Mohammad Anwari <Mohammad.Anwari@nokia.com>
Architecture: armel
Source: ezitext
Version: 6.0.035-6
Depends: libezitext
Description: French (France) language support for the eZiText (TM).
Confidential: yes

Package: maemo-bt-plugin
Status: install ok installed
Priority: optional
Section: user/Utilities
Installed-Size: 308
Maintainer: Tomas Junnonen <tomas.junnonen@nokia.com>
Architecture: armel
Version: 0.6.1-1
Description: Hildon status bar plugin for connecting Bluetooth keyboards and GPS devices

Package: hildon-status-bar-display-l10n-enus
Status: install ok installed
Priority: optional
Section: misc
Installed-Size: 60
Maintainer: L10n Team <l10n@maemo.org>
Architecture: all
Source: hildon-status-bar-display-l10n
Version: 2.0-4r3504
Description: hildon-status-bar-display enus locale
enus locale for hildon-status-bar-display.