Re: statusoverride how to fix??????

[Colin Watson <cjw44@flatline.org.uk>]

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On Fri, 08 Jun 2001 at 10:02:54 -0400, Debian User wrote:
> On Friday 08 June 2001 09:26, Colin Watson wrote:
> > Debian User <cparker@adelphia.net> wrote:
> > >dpkg --install file.deb keeps giving a statusoverride error.  How to fix
> > >this?????
> >
> > Do you mean the 'file' package, or is that just a way of saying "any
> > package"? Please show us the *full* error message.
> >
> > Thanks,
>   
> That is any package
> states: dpkg: syntax error: invalid mode in statusoverride file
> E: Sub-process /usr/bin/dpkg returned error code (2)

Your /var/lib/dpkg/statoverride might be corrupt. For instance, mine
looks like this:

  root mail 664 /etc/groupie/mailtonews.conf
  root adm 4754 /usr/bin/lpr
  root root 755 /usr/lib/apache/suexec
  root root 04755 /usr/bin/ssh
  root vmware 04754 /usr/sbin/vmnet
  root jwhois 0775 /var/cache/jwhois
  root tty 6755 /usr/bin/write
  root root 04755 /usr/sbin/ssh
  root jwhois 02755 /usr/bin/jwhois
  root mail 664 /etc/groupie/groupie.lists
  root vmware 04750 /usr/bin/hercifc

My guess is that the third field of one of the lines isn't a number (it
should be a numeric file mode, like the above). Fix that and all should
be well.

Cheers,

-- 
Colin Watson                                     [cjw44@flatline.org.uk]