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I don't think this is caused by an arch mismatch.
I have tried both in my native x86_64 installation and on an i386 installation. The former was 8.04 with all apt-get upgrades applied. The latter was a USB stick prepared by unetbootin with 8.04.1, and I symlinked /home/ubuntu/tmp to a directory of adequate size on my hard disk. In both cases, the symptoms were identical:
Cannot create /dev/null
Synaptic hangs
Also, I cannot execute a console command: An xterm(?) pops up but is then covered by a dialog: "There was an error creating the child process for this terminal". Which sounds like it may be due to the absence of /dev/null.