Shaul Karl <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> >> Is there a final new line? >>
> Yes there is: > [12:36:41 /tmp]$ ls -l /var/lib/dpkg/available > -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 2547713 Apr 25 00:46 > /var/lib/dpkg/available > [12:39:36 /tmp]$ od -cj 2547700 /var/lib/dpkg/available > 11557764 c e 9 1 8 0 f a 4 2 d f \n > 11560001 > [12:39:42 /tmp]$ I'm not sure if this is your problem, but there should be two final new lines. One to terminate the the MD5sum line, and one to terminate the record. -- Debian GNU/Linux 2.2 is out! ( http://www.debian.org/ ) Email: Herbert Xu ~{PmV>HI~} <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Home Page: http://gondor.apana.org.au/~herbert/ PGP Key: http://gondor.apana.org.au/~herbert/pubkey.txt