Re: urgent help needed md5sum gave malformatted output
Well, I'll have to take a look to make sure, thanks so much.
on Wednesday 01/08/2003 Colin Watson(cjwatson@debian.org) wrote
> On Wed, Jan 08, 2003 at 11:11:52AM -0500, John covici wrote:
> > on Wednesday 01/08/2003 Colin Watson(cjwatson@debian.org) 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
> >
> > 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 using an outdated version of dpkg: I've found the change that removed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,
>
> --
> Colin Watson [cjwatson@flatline.org.uk]
>
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