The funny thing is that not all packages are having the problem.
Here is the output of the commands requested.
Desired=Unknown/Install/Remove/Purge/Hold
| Status=Not/Installed/Config-files/Unpacked/Failed-config/Half-installed
|/ Err?=(none)/Hold/Reinst-required/X=both-problems (Status,Err: uppercase=bad)
||/ Name Version Description
+++-==============-==============-============================================
ii dpkg 1.10.9 Package maintenance system for Debian
Desired=Unknown/Install/Remove/Purge/Hold
| Status=Not/Installed/Config-files/Unpacked/Failed-config/Half-installed
|/ Err?=(none)/Hold/Reinst-required/X=both-problems (Status,Err: uppercase=bad)
||/ Name Version Description
+++-==============-==============-============================================
ii textutils 4.5.4-1 The GNU text file processing utilities
dpkg: /usr/bin/md5sum
on Wednesday 01/08/2003 Colin Watson([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote
> On Wed, Jan 08, 2003 at 10:02:31AM -0500, John covici wrote:
> > OK, here is a sample.
>
> [Please send replies just to the list, not to me directly - thanks.]
>
> > Setting up passwd (4.0.3-7) ...
> > dpkg: error processing passwd (--configure):
> > md5sum gave malformatted output `0d839ad723f1d2908dc3b386b6b757c9'
> > Errors were encountered while processing:
> > passwd
>
> That suggests an old version of dpkg to me, since the versions of dpkg
> in stable, testing, and unstable don't have that message (although old
> translation files suggest that they used to have it). Could you show the
> output of the following commands, please?
>
> dpkg -l dpkg
> dpkg -l textutils
> dpkg -S /usr/bin/md5sum
>
> Thanks,
>
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