On Wednesday 06 December 2006 06:36, Gordon Farquharson wrote: > It looks (to me) like a corrupt pkgcache.bin file is being created when > apt is first setup during the install [1]. So, here is a wild, probably > not very well thought out idea. Since this problem has only started > occurring recently, has something changed in the installation sequence > that would cause apt to behave in this way, i.e. is it possible that > the installer is abusing apt in some way ? I very much doubt that. If that were the case we'd see a lot more problems. If you can trace exactly how the pkgcache.bin is broken/corrupt, maybe we can find something. However, it looks to me that a lot of people are completely baffled by this issue. Thanks for all the work you've done on this so far. I think it really needs someone who can reproduce the issue to trace what's happening. Cheers, FJP
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