On Wed, Jan 08, 2003 at 11:11:52AM -0500, John covici wrote:
> 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.]
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> > > 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
>
> The funny thing is that not all packages are having the problem.
Only those with conffiles are likely to be affected.
> Here is the output of the commands requested.
[...]
Well, that matches my results. All the same, you definitely appear to be
using an outdated version of dpkg: I've found the change that removed
"md5sum gave malformatted output", dated 25 December 2000, which means
you must have something before dpkg 1.9.
Are you sure you don't have a stray copy of dpkg lying around on your
$PATH somewhere?
Cheers,
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Colin Watson [[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
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