what can I do about md5 sum gave malformatted output on a number of packages

[John Covici <covici@ccs.covici.com>]

Hi.  On my last upgrade on one of my systems (not both of them which
is suspicious) I have been getting a lot of md5sum gave malformatted
output: followed by a hex string during configure of a number of
packages.  How do I trouble shoot or fix this?

There are differences in the hardware between the two systems and the
one where it is happening is running Kernel 2.6.2.

Thanks.

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         John Covici
         covici@ccs.covici.com