Re: urgent help needed md5sum gave malformatted output

[Colin Watson <cjwatson@debian.org>]

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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Colin Watson                                  [cjwatson@flatline.org.uk]