Re: apt-get install: unknown user `amavis-stats'

[Florian Kulzer <florian@molphys.leidenuniv.nl>]

On Tue, Nov 28, 2006 at 13:00:44 +1300, Simon wrote:
> Hi There,
> 
> I am trying to install spamassassin from sarge-backports with this command:
> 
> apt-get install spamassassin/sarge-backports
> 
> But im getting this error once the packages have downloaded:
> 
> dpkg: syntax error: unknown user `amavis-stats' in statusoverride file
> E: Sub-process /usr/bin/dpkg returned an error code (2)
> 
> Is there a command to clear this or something? Thanks

The first thing to check is if you see user amavis-stats in the output of

dpkg-statoverride --list

Maybe you can fix the problem with "dpkg-statoverride --remove <file>".

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Regards,
          Florian