Here is a more advanced version. But I think for jaunty-updates we should just go with the workaround and understand the problem better for karmic. The race looks like its in libapt itself.
** Attachment added: "a different approach to solve the problem inside PK" http://launchpadlibrarian.net/25786558/15_cache_update.patch ** Also affects: packagekit (Ubuntu Jaunty) Importance: High Assignee: Michael Vogt (mvo) Status: Triaged ** Also affects: update-manager (Ubuntu Jaunty) Importance: Undecided Status: Confirmed -- E: The package cache file is corrupted E: _cache->open() failed, please report. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/257639 You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list ubuntu-bugs@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs
