Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1945999AbWLVKBr (ORCPT ); Fri, 22 Dec 2006 05:01:47 -0500 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1946002AbWLVKBr (ORCPT ); Fri, 22 Dec 2006 05:01:47 -0500 Received: from sorrow.cyrius.com ([65.19.161.204]:53649 "EHLO sorrow.cyrius.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1945999AbWLVKBq (ORCPT ); Fri, 22 Dec 2006 05:01:46 -0500 Date: Fri, 22 Dec 2006 11:01:39 +0100 From: Martin Michlmayr To: Gordon Farquharson Cc: Andrew Morton , Linus Torvalds , Peter Zijlstra , Hugh Dickins , Nick Piggin , Arjan van de Ven , Andrei Popa , Linux Kernel Mailing List , Florian Weimer , Marc Haber , Martin Schwidefsky , Heiko Carstens , Arnd Bergmann Subject: Re: [PATCH] mm: fix page_mkclean_one (was: 2.6.19 file content corruption on ext3) Message-ID: <20061222100139.GD10273@deprecation.cyrius.com> References: <20061220170323.GA12989@deprecation.cyrius.com> <20061220175309.GT30106@deprecation.cyrius.com> <97a0a9ac0612202332p1b90367bja28ba58c653e5cd5@mail.gmail.com> <97a0a9ac0612210117v6f8e7aefvcfb76de1db9120bb@mail.gmail.com> <20061221012721.68f3934b.akpm@osdl.org> <97a0a9ac0612212020i6f03c3cem3094004511966e@mail.gmail.com> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <97a0a9ac0612212020i6f03c3cem3094004511966e@mail.gmail.com> User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.13 (2006-08-11) Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 1078 Lines: 26 * Gordon Farquharson [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/ - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/