[Bug 1363519] Re: start-stop-daemon fails debsums check

[Rafał Roncoszek]

Thanks for Your reply! Of course I'll try dmesg, but:
1) Maybe I didn't describe it precisely enough - the systems (Ubuntu/Xubuntu i386) I checked in VirtualBox were installed on another machine and gave the same results as on my laptop;
2) it's hard to imagine that a corrupted hard disk changes md5sum of a file to md5sum of the file's previous version;
3) I reported similar problem a year ago with 12.04 https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/live-build/+bug/1150737
4) there was no problem with debsums after fresh install of 14.04.0...
that's why I thought it's rather packaging problem during building the release iso.
Why I marked is as a security issue? If my theory is OK - we have files in our systems that are not updated. Not updated means for me potentially buggy. If this is random situation, out of anyone's control, the problem seems to be serious.
Rgds!

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Title:
  start-stop-daemon fails debsums check

Status in “dpkg” package in Ubuntu:
  New

Bug description:
  After fresh install from 14.04.1-amd64-dvd - debsums -c results in: /sbin/start-stop-daemon. I checked dpkg package with dpkg -s dpkg and got: Status: install ok installed, Version: 1.17.5ubuntu5.3 (the latest version) but when I did md5sum /sbin/start-stop-daemon, I got b1b8894ae2e3b547dca0e288634cce4a, which is md5sum for start-stop-daemon from dpkg version 1.17.5ubuntu5!
  I confirmed the problem in Ubuntu/Xubuntu 14.04.1-i386 (VirtualBox) - the same case - latest version of dpkg package contains older version of start-stop-daemon. I guess this is the same problem I reported here: https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/live-build/+bug/1150737. I fixed the problem with sudo apt-get install --reinstall dpkg - simple if You know about it, otherwise You have outdated/buggy/ package/system...
  Rgds!

  ProblemType: Bug
  DistroRelease: Ubuntu 14.04
  Package: dpkg 1.17.5ubuntu5.3
  ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 3.13.0-35.62-generic 3.13.11.6
  Uname: Linux 3.13.0-35-generic x86_64
  ApportVersion: 2.14.1-0ubuntu3.3
  Architecture: amd64
  CurrentDesktop: Unity
  Date: Sat Aug 30 23:47:41 2014
  InstallationDate: Installed on 2014-08-07 (23 days ago)
  InstallationMedia: Ubuntu 14.04.1 LTS "Trusty Tahr" - Release amd64 (20140722.2)
  SourcePackage: dpkg
  UpgradeStatus: No upgrade log present (probably fresh install)

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