Hi again Giuseppe, this is the out put from the three commands that you gave me.
ra...@zen2:~$ ls -l /etc/papersize.dpkg-inst /etc/papersize -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 3 dic 16 2007 /etc/papersize -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 3 mar 24 21:19 /etc/papersize.dpkg-inst ra...@zen2:~$ which ucf /usr/bin/ucf ra...@zen2:~$ apt-cache policy ucf ucf: Instalados: 3.0025 Candidato: 3.0025 Tabla de versión: *** 3.0025 0 500 http://ftp.debian.org unstable/main Packages 500 http://debian.unesr.edu.ve unstable/main Packages 100 /var/lib/dpkg/status ra...@zen2:~$ And this is the output from the last two: Zen2:/home/ramon# echo a4>/etc/papersize.dpkg-inst Zen2:/home/ramon# ucf -d /etc/papersize.dpkg-inst /etc/papersize The new start file is `/etc/papersize.dpkg-inst\' The destination is `/etc/papersize\' (`\/etc\/papersize\') The history is kept under \'/etc\' The file may be cached at \'/var/lib/ucf/cache/:etc:papersize\' The destination file exists, and has md5sum: 2f1ad364c25bfd8dcee21c2d6ea97a3a /etc/papersize The old md5sum exists, and is: 2f1ad364c25bfd8dcee21c2d6ea97a3a The new file exists, and has md5sum: 2f1ad364c25bfd8dcee21c2d6ea97a3a /etc/papersize.dpkg-inst Historical md5sums are not available Zen2:/home/ramon# echo $? 128 Thanks a lot. Ramón Ramos. On Thu, Mar 25, 2010 at 3:50 AM, Giuseppe Sacco < giuse...@eppesuigoccas.homedns.org> wrote: > Could you please issue these three commands? > > ls -l /etc/papersize.dpkg-inst /etc/papersize > which ucf > apt-cache policy ucf > > then, execute these two commands: > > echo a4 > /etc/papersize.dpkg-inst > ucf -d /etc/papersize.dpkg-inst /etc/papersize > echo $? > > please send to this bug report all output you get from these commands. > > Thanks, > Giuseppe > >