Sub-process /usr/bin/dpkg returned an error code

[Antoine Jacoutot <ajacoutot@lphp.org>]

Hi !

I installed for some tests the cyrus-imap server.
Today I did:
apt-get --purge remove cyrus-imap
I saw that the cyrus user was not removed from /etc/passwd, so I did:
userdel cyrus

And now, I can't install packages anymore, I get the followinf error:
dpkg: syntax error: unknown user `cyrus' in statusoverride file 
E: Sub-process /usr/bin/dpkg returned an error code (2)

Anyone has an idea how to resolve this problem without recreating the cyrus user
which I don't need...

Thanks in advance.

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Antoine Jacoutot 
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