adduser kills sound pt. 2

["Rick Spillane" <necro351@gmail.com>]

I tried to fix the problem on my own by completely removing
linux-sound-base and the alsa packages, then reinstalling them,
however when I tried to reinstall them (after successfully removing
them) I got this error:

Preconfiguring packages ...
dpkg: syntax error: unknown group `root' in statoverride file
E: Sub-process /usr/bin/dpkg returned an error code (2)
A package failed to install. Trying to recover:

I think that adduser messed up my groups file, and now a lot of stuff,
including dpkg and my sound isn't working. Any ideas? I wish I could
just restore my /etc directory to how it was before...

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Rick
necro351@gmail.com