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Date: Fri, 22 Dec 2006 11:01:39 +0100
From: Martin Michlmayr <tbm@cyrius.com>
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* Gordon Farquharson <gordonfarquharson@gmail.com> [2006-12-21 21:20]:
> generating these files, pkgcache.bin grows to 12582912 bytes, and when
> apt-get finishes, pkgcache.bin is 6425533 bytes and srcpkgcache.bin is
> 64254483 bytes. This time, when apt-get exited, it had only created
> pkgcache.bin which was still 12582912 bytes.

Yes, same here:

sh-3.1# ls -l /var/cache/apt/
total 5252
drwxr-xr-x 3 root root    12288 Dec 22 04:41 archives
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 12582912 Dec 22 04:45 pkgcache.bin
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root     8554 Dec 22 04:45 srcpkgcache.bin

Gordon, does it fail for you where it normally does (installing
initramfs-tools) or much later?  For me, the installer was able to
install initramfs-tools and the kernel, but apt now hangs at "Select
and install software".
-- 
Martin Michlmayr
http://www.cyrius.com/