Comment 53 for bug 257639

@Martin Pitt

it worked ok on the 2.6.28-8 kernel; however I did not try on the ....-11 kernel that was installed too because of #344406.

then I downloaded and installed the new released jaunty hoping that the problem reported on #344406 was somehow fixed/addressed. no joy so far. just for your info below is the output from the new jaunty install

cat /proc/partitions
major minor #blocks name

   8 0 488386584 sda
   8 1 35832951 sda1
   8 2 1 sda2
   8 3 24097 sda3
   8 5 16378236 sda5
   8 6 1020096 sda6
   8 7 33784663 sda7
   8 8 21486906 sda8
   8 16 244198584 sdb
   8 17 118784578 sdb1
   8 18 125411422 sdb2

re the newly installed jaunty (today's release) - it downloaded and installed the latest (some 5MB) OK, without the

E: The package cache file is corrupted
E: _cache->open() failed, please report.

message.

regards,
peter b