The bug that was originally reported has been fixed.
Mounting /var on tmpfs is not a supported configuration for Ubuntu; /var/lib must be persistent.
Umm, please, please *please* read my fstab. It's like nobody's looking at it at all. I have /var mounted from the SSD (reiserfs); it's persistent. apt's cache is tmpfs, /tmp is tmpfs, /var/run is tmpfs (on the server system, not my eee), and /var/tmp is tmpfs.
The bug that was originally reported has been fixed.
Mounting /var on tmpfs is not a supported configuration for Ubuntu; /var/lib must be persistent.
Umm, please, please *please* read my fstab. It's like nobody's looking at it at all. I have /var mounted from the SSD (reiserfs); it's persistent. apt's cache is tmpfs, /tmp is tmpfs, /var/run is tmpfs (on the server system, not my eee), and /var/tmp is tmpfs.