Thread: PR1.2 update hangs on downloading
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2010-05-27 , 10:01
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#7
Originally Posted by schiele View Post
Zero-byte files for all packages are created in /home/user/MyDocs/.apt-archive-cache/partial/. --- They stay zero bytes for all their lifetime and are deleted right before the next one is created so that always only one file is present. Thus it seems the download process itself is failing somehow.
Zero-byte files doesn't sound good.

As a normal user in the .apt-archive-cache directory with X terminal:

cat /etc/services > foo
ls -la /etc/services foo

should show that both files are equal in the size.

If they are not. Then the file system if full or corrupted.